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Each time I open Google Calendar in Chromium (snap edition), I get this dialog:

Snap Chromium webcal dialog

No matter whether I press Yes or No, I get the same dialog again later. Note that I flip between two different Google accounts' calendars, which might be contributing to this problem.

How do I get this dialog to stop appearing?

Environment:

  • Ubuntu 20.10
  • Chromium Version 88.0.4324.150 (Official Build) snap (64-bit)
  • snap 2.48.3+20.10
  • snapd 2.48.3+20.10

Permissions:

Chromium snap permissions

Sample Flow:

  • Start with Chromium closed
  • Open Chromium
  • Open a tab for Calendar A: get the popup
  • Click Yes in the popup
  • Close Chromium
  • Open Chromium
  • Open a tab for Calendar A: do not get the popup
  • Open a tab for Calendar B: get the popup
  • Click Yes in the popup
  • Close Chromium
  • Open Chromium
  • Open a tab for Calendar B: do not get the popup
  • Open a tab for Calendar A: get the popup
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  • Could you update your question to include a screenshot of the permissions granted to Chromium? You can find them by opening "Ubuntu Software", finding Chromium, then clicking on the "Permissions" button. I wonder if this is a confinement issue ... –  Feb 18 '21 at 15:48
  • @Matigo: Added -- thanks! – CommonsWare Feb 18 '21 at 15:55
  • Does this happen if you don't switch between the two account calendars? Please try this and post feeback. – sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio Feb 19 '21 at 14:37
  • @sancho.sReinstateMonicaCellio: It is definitely tied to using two Google Calendars. If I stick to one calendar, I do not repeatedly get the popup. I have edited the question with a sample set of steps and when I do/do not get the popup. Thanks! – CommonsWare Feb 19 '21 at 14:43

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Okay, I think I just found it. Go to Settings → Security and Privacy → Site Settings → Additional Permissions → Protocol Handlers (or copy and paste the following in the browser's address bar: chrome://settings/handlers) and make sure Calendar is not allowed. Alternately, if you want you can disable every site from asking.

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This is not meant as an answer, but the features available in comments are limited enough to make it more useful to post a "comment-as-an-answer".

Actions that could narrow your problem

  1. Check the status of your configuration as shown here at each point in the sequence you described, and possibly others.
  2. Check if the apt-get version of chromium (package chromium-browser) behaves the same (and if not, perhaps this is an acceptable workaround for you).
  3. Check whether default-url-scheme-handler:webcal is a setting of snap or chromium.
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  • Thanks! Your link in #1 is nearly a decade old, and Chromium does not seem to have any relevant settings (using its search option). AFAIK, #2 no longer exists -- that's why I am using the snap. And I don't know what you mean by #3. – CommonsWare Feb 20 '21 at 00:52
  • @CommonsWare - Link #1) Even if it's old, the settings referred to may still exist, and they may shed some light on your problem. YMMV. Link #2) The package does exist, apparently. Please try installing chromium-browser, as added in the answer. – sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio Feb 20 '21 at 02:47
  • "Even if it's old, the settings referred to may still exist" -- as I noted in my previous comment, they do not. "The package does exist, apparently" -- that is a transitional package to the snap. It is 47.2KB in size and mostly contains PNG files. In older versions of Ubuntu, [it *was* Chromium](https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/chromium-browser), but it is not anymore. – CommonsWare Feb 20 '21 at 12:50