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Resolved This Page Wants to Install a Service Handler?

Discussion in 'Web Applications & Cloud' started by Davezilla, 2012/09/27.

  1. 2012/09/27
    Davezilla

    Davezilla Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    I have been experimenting with Chrome profiles & inadvertently became part of the Google Borg, sorry, I mean cloud, when I discovered that a profile I made on my desktop PC now opens on my notebook alternative Chrome profile. Theme, customisations, *extensions & bookmarks. When I go to my GMail account I see **this icon in the runbar claiming that the page wants to install a service handler. I click the 'ignore' radio button but it seems to keep coming back. :eek:

    A/ Has anyone else seen this behaviour?

    B/ What does it mean?



    *I was initially experimenting with a virtually vanilla Chrome with only a couple of extensions & a theme to see how much faster it would be.

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    Arie

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    A: No, I don't use Gmail.

    B: As indicated in the screen shot, it is a handler that will set your system so hat all email links will open in Gmail (as opposed to your email client).

    This is a Gmail feature that apparently started last February (see: Google Chrome cleverly opens email links in Gmail using HTML5)
     
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  4. 2012/09/27
    Davezilla

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    OK thanks Arie. I had a feeling it was something like that.
     
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