https://github.com/szhu/aboutweb

There is now an application set to open the URL about:blank.
https://github.com/szhu/aboutweb

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There is now an application set to open the URL about:blank.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/szhu/aboutweb
• Owner: szhu
• Created: 2015-06-03T09:52:31.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-01-29T13:13:39.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-11T15:52:48.809Z (9 months ago)
• Language: Shell
• Homepage:
• Size: 47.9 KB
• Stars: 17
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
AboutWeb

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This is a simple app designed to silence this dialog:

![error message](doc/error.png)

That's it. That's all it does.

Do you need this app?

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Browsers are supposed to display the URL `about:blank` as a blank page.

Unfortunately, some web browsers or similar apps do not know how to do this and

will ask macOS to handle this URL. Apps that do this are misbehaving, but until

these apps are fixed, you can use AboutWeb to silence these errors.

Usage

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1. [Download this repo](https://github.com/szhu/AboutWeb/archive/master.tar.gz)

   and open it to untar, or `git clone https://github.com/szhu/AboutWeb.git`.

2. You may need to manually open the app once to get rid of the Gatekeeper

   warning. You can do this by right-clicking on the app and selecting Open, or

   by running `cd AboutWeb; bin/un-gatekeeper-ify`.

3. That's it! This app will register itself to open `about:` URLs and will

   handle them by doing nothing.

Uninstall

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If you no longer need AboutWeb, just trash the AboutWeb folder or the app.

References

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- [rsms/fb-mac-messenger#126](https://github.com/rsms/fb-mac-messenger/issues/126)