Recently when I visited itunes.apple.com page for some app, Chrome asked me if I would allow opening the product in App Store. I chose "Yes" and I made a stupid mistake of allowing it permanently:
Remember my choice for links of type App Store.app
Now everytime I visit some iTunes page, App Store app automatically pops up and it's really annoying. Is there I way to turn this behaviour off?
I tried searching in Google Chrome settings, but without success (chrome://settings/handlers
should obviously list these protocols and programs, but my list is empty).
Best Answer
I have found the solution in this comment. The protocol handler in question is
macappstores
and it needs to be removed from Chrome's list of allowed protocols.Unfortunately, it is not possible to solve it through UI, so manually editing of Chrome settings file is needed:
Finder
window and use the menu optionGo
→Go to Folder…
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/
and click theGo
button.Default
.Profile X
whereX
is a number (if there are several of them, you must manually identify yours or perform steps below in each).Default
, too (this was at least my experience).Preferences
.TextEdit
is enough).Search for the following text:
"macappstores":false
. The surrounding text should look similar to this (without newlines and indentation; I have added them just to prettify the text):Delete text
"macappstores":false,
(note to also delete one comma!) and save file.