chrome/chromium/canary defaults (for opening web links) in windows..

[Matevz Leskovsek]

Hi all, how do you manage defaults between various chrome/chromium/canary/nightlybuilder builds? I just installed chromium and it has hijacked my "start chrome" command in my autohotkey script? I want my autohotkey script to run chrome (stable build), not chromium (which is cool defntly), so any ideas how to distinguish amongst those? 

Sorry if stupid question.. pls halp

[PhistucK]

The "App Paths" registration happens at the time of installation.

The installer has a bug where it registers the App Paths regardless of the stability of the channel (stable, beta, canary...).

I think that basically means that the last installation that runs (automatic updates runs the installation again, remember. This is not relevant to Chromium, because it does not update automatically unless you use a script, though I would not bother with an installation and just extract the ZIP instead) registers the "App Paths" for the version it installed, from what I can tell.

Since you have the canary installed, I think it will always "win", since it is automatically updated (installed) daily.

So other than somehow detecting that an installation has just happened and registering the "App Paths" back to your desired version through some automated script, I am not sure there is much you can do right now. :(

☆PhistucK

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 2:10 AM Matevz Leskovsek <matevz.l...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all, how do you manage defaults between various chrome/chromium/canary/nightlybuilder builds? I just installed chromium and it has hijacked my "start chrome" command in my autohotkey script? I want my autohotkey script to run chrome (stable build), not chromium (which is cool defntly), so any ideas how to distinguish amongst those? 

Sorry if stupid question.. pls halp

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[Matevz Leskovsek]

Probably easiest solution now is to uninstall chromium (+ maybe reinstall chrome) and from that point on only install chromium and other builds by unzipping into program files folder and avoid running any installers such as windows MSI?

[Matevz Leskovsek]

Where can I find ZIP builds of various channels? Something like a "portable canary build" would be best as I assume it wouldnt mess up with app paths - or would it? Ideally I would like to have many instances of chromium running on same computer and only one (the stable) being the default, is that doable? Thanks!!!!!!

[PhistucK]

I do not know how to get a standalone version (EXE, but it is unofficially extractable) of Chrome canary, appending ?standalone=1 to the download page URL does not seem to do anything anymore.

You can look for a (unofficial) PortableApps edition of those, but I doubt they create one for each canary build.

Google/the project does not provide Chrome ZIPs except for stable Chrome for enterprise (but it simply includes an MSI installer).

Maybe you can protect (allow modification only by the system) the relevant registry keys from being modified by the installers once it has the right stable path. I do not remember whether that is an option.

☆PhistucK

[Matevz Leskovsek]

Thanks for help! Update: I tested and verified that canary and official chrome can run at the same time, use the same microphone and both use google speech API which is awesome. So now I am even more interested to run multiple chromium builds in 1) containers (anyone tried?) 2) standalone/portable (anyone knows of good links? I found "woolys" site but havent tried yet) or by simply installing other forks (there must be many builds built on chromium kernel I assume?)

Anyhow, canary + stable behave like independent entities when it comes to resources sharing, which is awesome, but canary somehow hijacks windows' default action (path to browser) which is annoying..