Issue 240110 in chromium: chrome:// anchor links not working

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Labels: Type-Bug Pri-2 OS-Windows

New issue 240110 by tbigg...@akrf.com: chrome:// anchor links not working
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=240110

Chrome Version : 29.0.1506.0 (199634)
OS Version: 6.2 (Windows 8)
URLs (if applicable) : chrome://flags, chrome://settings, etc.
Other browsers tested:
Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
Safari 5:
Firefox 4.x:
IE 7/8/9:

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create html page with anchor href of (e.g.)
chrome://settings/contentExceptions#cookies
2. Try the link
3. Nothing happens / dragging to new window is always "about:blank"

What is the expected result?
Take user to appropriate settings page

What happens instead of that?
Link stuck at about:blank for all chrome:// paths

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.
Still happens on latest Chromium nightly, but also happening on current
stable. Was working as expected on a much earlier version (16?)

UserAgentString: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.31
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.64 Safari/537.31



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Updates:
Labels: Needs-Feedback

Comment #1 on issue 240110 by pucchaka...@chromium.org: chrome:// anchor

links not working
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=240110

Not able to reproduce this on latest M29 build on 29.0.1510.0 - Win8.

Can you please check again and update the issue?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #2 on issue 240110 by tbigg...@akrf.com: chrome:// anchor links not
working
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=240110

Still happening for me. Let's use a good frame of reference:
The links on the chrome://about page work great - from the chrome://about
page.
However if you save that as test.html, and try to open it locally (file://)
or host it and open (http://) those chrome:// links are not clickable. And
dragging them to a new tab sends them to about:blank
thanks for your help!

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: Untriaged
Cc: srsrid...@chromium.org
Labels: -Needs-Feedback M-30 Cr-UI-Browser

Comment #3 on issue 240110 by srsrid...@chromium.org: chrome:// anchor

links not working
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=240110

Able to repro the issue on Windows8 OS. This is a non-regression issue
existing since M26 chrome versions.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #5 on issue 240110 by Arn...@unishared.com: chrome:// anchor links
not working
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=240110

The bug is also occurring for me on OS X 10.8.4 with last stable Version
29.0.1547.57

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #7 on issue 240110 by tbigg...@akrf.com: chrome:// anchor links not
working
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=240110

With all due respect (and I do mean this respectfully), this issue is much
more important and costly for those of us managing Google Apps domains or
other infrastructures where we fight an uphill battle to get people off of
Internet Explorer and onto Chrome as their browser:

If we can't send them (direct) links to specific Chrome settings pages, the
process of assisting them is increasingly complex. If you help us make
these anchor links work / speed up the support process, they're more likely
to see the browser as "easy" - heck, your own help pages on the browser
could have links that go to the appropriate settings pages (I think they
used to).

Just two examples:

With the anchor links fixed, "go to your cookie cache and delete all the
<our domain> cookies" becomes
"click here <chrome://settings/cookies>. Type <domain> in the search
window. Delete anything that comes up"

"Go to your cookie and site data exceptions" becomes "click here
<chrome://settings/contentExceptions#cookies>. Now scroll to the end, type
<this value> hit done."

Sadly "send them the link and have them copy and paste it into the
omnibrowser" is harder than it sounds for some folks, and as I mentioned,
having links that work really would help your own Chrome online
documentation be uber-functional.

Thanks for listening!