How to change Opera settings to open links in external apps.

[danielvartan]

danielvartan last edited by

I mistakenly allowed Opera to open the Windows WhatsApp app (terrible app) for links like https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=000000000, and now I can't disable this behavior.

Can anyone help with this?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426

Look at the URL opera://settings/handlers first to see if you find any whatsapp entries that you can remove.

If not, goto the URL opera://about, take note of the "profile" path, close Opera and open the "Preferences" file in the profile folder with JSONedit in tree mode. You'll need to change the file type filter in the open dialgo to "all" since the "Preferences" file doesn't have the .json extension.

Under root/protocol_handlers/allowed_origin_protocol_pairs, look for site entries with a whatsapp-related protocol subentry that's set to true. For each one you find, you can set it to false so that Opera will ask you before opening in the external whatsapp app. Or, you can just right-click on one of the site entries under allowed_origin_protocol_pairs and choose "Delete selected node".

Then, save your changes.

[danielvartan]

danielvartan @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Thank you! ️