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Application Links Disappeared in Edge Settings
Greetings,
I hope that you're doing well. A website that I frequently visit continuously prompts to become the default protocol handler of MAILTO: links. The previous versions of Microsoft Edge provided the option to prevent websites from requesting permission to become default protocol handlers. However, as of Edge Version 138.0.3351.65, this option seems to no longer be available in Edge Settings -> Privacy, search, and services -> Site permissions. Can someone from the Edge Support Team please confirm if this option is available somewhere else? Screenshots are attached. Thanks in advance for your help!
Option Available in Previous Version of Edge:
Option Not Available in Current Version of Edge:
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Also seeing the same behavior. The removal of this setting makes it impossible to unregister or remove this permission from sites that already have access to it. Not only is this frustrating for users but could also enable malicious sites to do some crafty things with protocol handlers since the permissions are hidden and therefore impossible to revoke.
Worse yet, if a site asks to register a protocol handler, if you click the "Manage" button in the popup, it attempts to open edge://settings/handlers but then redirects to edge://settings/profiles because the handlers page has been removed. What gives?
Looks like edge://settings/content/applicationLinks now redirects to edge://settings/privacy/sitePermissions/allSites, which doesn't have any ApplicationLink configurations. Am also curious where this option went, seems too essential for them to just remove completely.
