Can't open a link on Slack

[lordgeyik]

Hi,

I used to be able to open links on Slack using BC2, but then I accidentally changed my default browser to Firefox, then changed it back to BC2. Now it won’t open links on Slack anymore. However, it opens link from other sources, for example, offline PDF files, as expected.

Here’s how my app associations looks like:

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[Vince]

I ran into this exact same issue.

Temporary work-around that worked for me: disable “Use AERO” under BC2 > Options > Settings > Display.

The program wont look as pretty, but at least it’ll continue to function!

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FYI to devs: when this particular issue happens, the application launches, but never displays the picker window. For auto-links, they still work as expected. For all others where the UI should come up, nothing is displayed, but the process continues to run. I found myself with 20+ instances of BC2 running in the background that all failed to display after clicking various Slack links that never worked - This also includes the SLACK LOGIN LINK, which means this is even more critical, because it prevents users from signing into Slack if they’re signed out (such as rebooting a PC)

[Rob Randell]

I’ll aim to look at this when I get a chance (not now as I have a day job that doesn’t involve VB.NET ).
For now, lordgeyik and Vince, if you wanted to grab the release I’ve put in my fork of this (https://bitbucket.org/Verbail/browserchooser2rrfork/downloads/) and drop the exe files over your existing ones (take a backup first) I’d appreciate any feedback there and issues opened on that fork (I don’t have permissions here).

Oh, and if either / both of you could send config files over that would be handy (along with the screenshots and descriptions - just in case I realise I’m missing something mid troubleshooting as I haven’t looked at this bit of the code base at all!

[Rob Randell]

@lordgeyik What does Slack do now btw? Stay with Firefox to open links? And if so, all types of links?

[lordgeyik]

Sorry for my late reply, and thanks for responding. What I did was uninstalling then re-installing the app and set it as default browser a while ago, which solved the issue for me. Please let me know if my configs would still be helpful to you.

However, back when I had the issue (BC2 was set as default browser at the time), Slack just wouldn’t do anything when clicking a link (any type of external link).

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[Rob Randell]

Not at all on the delay - only a week and there’s plenty of good reasons to be afk for a week!
Good to know it’s sorted though. I’d be interested to see those config files just to see if I can recreate this, but this isn’t essential if you don’t have them any more.

BTW, in a fairly frank bit of self-promotion (but for good reason, I hope), if you are prepared to have a look here: <https://bitbucket.org/Verbail/browserchooser2rrfork/downloads/> and grab the 2.6 release I’d be interested for feedback on that. There’s some useful aditions in there (some bug fixes of things I noticed, plus some UI bits that should make life easier and nicer),. There’s more to do and I can look at bugs there (I have no write permissions here).

(I’m updating some release notes in the readme.md file that’s show in “Source”, but may not finish that today as I need to rush out soon).

As far as I know you should be able to just keep your BrowserChooser2Config.xml file and use that plus the five files in the 2.6 zip (and for anyone’s benefit there’s no installer, but you just grab .
Cheers!