We've tried monitoring the traffic to see what site IE is trying to load to see if we are missing something in the gray list, but we never actually see IE make a outbound call.

One item I just tried - if I put an offending URL directly into the URLlist policy, it will NOT loop.  It only appears to loop on items that are found within the Enterprise Mode list.

Could there be an offending character or something in the enterprise mode list file that could be causing this behavior?

It is possible that some entries in the site list can cause issues as this is relatively new feature and some edge cases might have not been encountered/covered yet. Can you share privately with us your site list (or a simplified sample reproducing the issue) together with the url that causes the problem? You can use my email address pastarmovj at chromium.org or share it via google drive with that email address. 

A change is in the making to allow for prefix entries in the site lists (both from the intrinsic LBS policies as well as the IE Site List to be specified without a schema e.g. until now "http://test.com/" would be a proper prefix entry but "test.com/" would not be now the rule is extended to allow for this and either entries of the form "//test.com/" as well as "test.com/" are allowed. Single slash will not be allowed to disambiguate from incomplete directory path.

We will soon publish a version containing this change to the beta channel of LBS and then the bug will be marked as fixed.

Great, thank you for the update.

How can I participate in the early release testing?

John

Hi,

the beta channels info is here https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6096882?hl=en&ref_topic=3062034

I will update this bug once the changes are present on this channel.

Thank you! :)

The bug should be fixed on the beta channel now. Please give it a shot and let me know.

Great, thank you!  Will test and report back.

Hello - We tested the beta file.  There is good news and bad news.

The good news - the looping does appear to have stopped for sites that are listed in our enterprise mode list.

The bad news is that sites that are in our Enteprise mode list are being directed back to Chrome with the IE Add-in enabled.  I presume the IE Add-in is detecting that the site 'can' be run in Chrome and pushing the URL back to Chrome.  

Is there a way to prevent this behavior?  We'd want whatever is in our enterprise mode list to open in IE as defined.  We do not want the Add-in to self declare what sites open where (ignoring the IE enterprise mode list).

Thanks,

John

Thanks for the quick feedback! 

The IE Addon should not "decide" on its own anything for sure! I will check what is going on and update the bug asap.

Update for the bug. The issue has been identified to being non-ascii characters in the site list were causing issues with LBS. The extension has been fixed to operate properly with any Unicode characters and an updated version will soon be posted to the beta channel. Meanwhile clearing URLs which contain non-ascii characters from the list should be sufficient to overcome this issue.

The new beta version (5.3) should fix the issue with non-ascii characters in URLs.