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eddiezato
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Jan 25, 2021

New Downloads and Collections Menus

Sorry devs, but I need to share this with my desperate fellows who want to try this new features too.    To enable new flyout menus for Downloads and Collections you need to add command line para...
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eddiezato
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Jan 26, 2021

This path contains settings for default browser. For me it is:

 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\https\UserChoice]
"ProgId"="MSEdgeHTM"

 

"MSEdgeHTM" leads us to:

 

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSEdgeHTM\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge\\Application\\msedge.exe\" --single-argument %1"

 

We can modify this command. Or duplicate whole registry key "MSEdgeHTM" to "MSEdgeHTM2", then change command in "MSEdgeHTM2" and set "ProgId" to "MSEdgeHTM2".

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HotCakeX
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Jan 26, 2021
Thank you, that worked!

is "--single-argument %1" only a place holder?
and could this be done for Edge canary? not sure what its registry path is in "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT"
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    HotCakeX
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    Jan 27, 2021

    eddiezato 

    eddiezato wrote:
    HotCakeX wrote:
    is "--single-argument %1" only a place holder?

    I think it is.

    so about that,

     

    "%1" represent the file used as param of the msedge command. So basically it's your "MSEdgHTM" file. If you remove it, open a MSEdgeHTM file will just open msedge.exe without opening the file inside it.

     

    "--single-argument :"

     

    https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/base/command_line.h

     

    The single-argument switch prevents unexpected parsing of arguments from other software that cannot be trusted to escape double quotes when substituting into a placeholder (e.g., "%1" placeholders populated by the Windows shell).

     

    So its purpose is to be sure that the next argument (%1) will be interpreted correctly as a single argument.

    It's probably better to keep it.

     

     
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    eddiezato
    Iron Contributor
    Jan 27, 2021
    HotCakeX wrote:
    is "--single-argument %1" only a place holder?

    I think it is.

    HotCakeX wrote:
    and could this be done for Edge canary? not sure what its registry path is in "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT"

    Sorry, I'm using Canary without installation. So I don't have much to say about it's paths in Registry.

    But you always can modify exe-path in command. :smile:

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