ezLinkPreview not working on twitter.com in v30.0.1599.69 m

[Paul Swain]

For the last few days, probably since Chrome v30.0.1599.69 m was released, ezLinkPreview hasn't worked on external links on twitter.com.  It still works correctly for internal twitter.com links (e.g. hash tags and user profiles), and on other pages.  ezLinkPreview version is v5.33.

On twitter.com the ezLinkPreview window opens, but it just stays blank.

Another user has reported a similar problem in the Feedback section.

Could you please have a look at this.

Thanks!

[Erik Zanker]

Thanks for reporting this. I will look into it...

Erik

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[Erik Zanker]

Paul, ezLP has stopped working for me completely now. Lets report this to the Chrome team and see if something they did in v30 has broken my extension. Probably the more people that report this, the more likely we will get some attention...

Thanks,

Erik

[Erik Zanker]

After further investigation:

AS of Chrome Version 30.0.1599.69 m Google has disabled loading HTTP content into the preview when you are on a secure (HTTPS) page e.g. twitter, google, facebook, etc. (https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=238484) This prevents ezLinkPreview from working on those pages with any external links.  Workaround now is to use the --allow-running-insecure-content flag which reduces security.

Google's change to chrome has not left me with any options for now. You can set Chrome to run with less security using the --allow-running-insecure-content flag, but you should consider any security trade offs...

[Paul Swain]

Thanks for the update Erik.

That's a real shame.  Hopefully you'll be able to figure something out.