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IFIYGD May 10, 2018 @ 2:32am

Redirects...

Did a quick search and didn't see this posted yet (may have missed it or used the wrong keywords... apologies if this is already posted soehwere).

Steam Client- stable (no Beta). I am clicking some news links and links in annoucements and news feeds in my games library. And I am finding more often than not rather than opening the page in the Steam Client internal browser, it is opening a new Chrome Browser Window on my machine.

I believe my client is up to date (got what seemed to be a fairly sizable update lst night when I logged in), , but this has been happening for a few days now. I know Beta Client just got a big update, not sure if it addressed this issue or not? It is a tad annoying to have a new external browser window opening every time I click an internal Community page link, and watching Chrome suddently suck down memory because of that browser page opening. Those links should just be navigating me from page to page internally, within the Client. NOT opening external browser windows. This is a bit invasive, and appears like a virus or malware, similar to the ad redirect that the dev for Borderless Gaming added to hos app, that got him reamed out for doing. TL;DR- it made him look shady as hell, now Steam Client is doing the same thing?

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Muppet among Puppets May 10, 2018 @ 3:52am

Thats not a redirect.
Just because steam has some kind of browser, its shady if they use your standard browser, well, as you choosed?

First think, before giving things names.

IFIYGD May 10, 2018 @ 10:18am

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:
Thats not a redirect.
Just because steam has some kind of browser, its shady if they use your standard browser, well, as you choosed?

First think, before giving things names.

Steam has an internal browser. When I click an internal link, it should navigate to the page on the internal browser. Not redirect and open an external browser, to show me that page. This makes it appear to be a virus or malware, opening a new browser window, outside of the client, that I did not ask to open, or open on my own. Similar to how porn sites used to (and some still do) open new windows if you tried to close the porn site window out. You could never [X] out, since they would open new window after new window after new window, that could only be stopped by shutting the entire browser or computer down.

If you do not understand that when I am logged into the Client, using the Client's internal browser, and I expect theinternal navigation link to link me INTERNALLY, using the INTERNAL browser, not opening an unexpected external page to show me a news annoucement or changelog post after an update, is EXPECTED behavior, Opening an EXTERNAL LINK is unexpected and something that malwayre or viruses can cause. And should not be happening on a computer that scans virus-free and malware-free using deep scans and eliminating heuristics.

Opening an external browser window is NOT expected behavior, and NOT something Steam did before, this behavior only starting within the last few days to a week in the "Stable" Client.

First, think before posting nonsense responses to actual concerns.

cSg|mc-Hotsauce May 10, 2018 @ 10:36am

Been brought up quite a few times in the last few weeks.

They either changed the way the links redirected or it is a bug. We still don't have word on this.

Knowing Valve, probably the former.

Last edited by cSg|mc-Hotsauce; May 10, 2018 @ 10:36am

IFIYGD May 10, 2018 @ 11:30am

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:
Been brought up quite a few times in the last few weeks.

They either changed the way the links redirected or it is a bug. We still don't have word on this.

Knowing Valve, probably the former.

:qr:

Ah, thank you. I searched, but must not have used the correct keywords. So it is a known issue, not something just on my Client installation or machine.

Thank you, greatly appreciate the helpful response.

Muppet among Puppets May 10, 2018 @ 2:12pm

Originally posted by IFIYGD:
First, think before posting nonsense responses to actual concerns.

A redirect is when you get to a site you didnt click or insert.
A nonsense response is something else.

In your post it sounded like as a link posted or a link not leading to normal client things. Which is normal to be opened by your browser that you choosed.

What is an example of the behaviour you found to be new?

IFIYGD May 10, 2018 @ 2:36pm

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:
Originally posted by IFIYGD:
First, think before posting nonsense responses to actual concerns.
A redirect is when you get to a site you didnt click or insert.
A nonsense response is something else.

In your post it sounded like as a link posted or a link not leading to normal client things. Which is normal to be opened by your browser that you choosed.

What is an example of the behaviour you found to be new?

Read. My. Posts.

Suntio May 10, 2018 @ 4:00pm

This is exactly the same problem Ive been having few days.

If I click for example a link under EuroTruck2 game starting page, it opens external webbrowser and not Steam own news page as it did earlier.

But, in the mean time, if I open the feedback page (dont know what it is called in english), under my username, and I have that same news showing up in the feedback page, now it opens the proper Steam browser page.

@IFIYGD, could you test if the latter is happening to you too? That could maybe confirm that it is a bug.

Muppet among Puppets May 10, 2018 @ 4:02pm

Are the links the same?

Suntio May 10, 2018 @ 4:49pm

Yes, they are same links and exactly the same addresses.

This is quite annoying bug, because Im not following every game I have, and because of that, I do not get all the news to my newsfeed. It means, I cant comment for example patch announcements because I would need to login to Steam at the webbrowser page, and that is what I will not do.

Muppet among Puppets May 10, 2018 @ 4:54pm

Then make an easy to understand bug report to support.
In this calm form, without throwing random words like virus around, it shows something is wrong then.

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IFIYGD May 10, 2018 @ 6:09pm

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:
Then make an easy to understand bug report to support.
In this calm form, without throwing random words like virus around, it shows something is wrong then.

Look kiddo, I asked about an unexpected behavior. I was not making a bug report,l becuase I did not know if it was something being experienced by others or not.

You, in you infinite wisdom, as a layperson and NOT a Valve Mod, Support Employee, or employee of any kind, decided to skip on in and strat posting nonsense, and telling me and others how to speak, what word to use, how to use them, ,blah, blah, blah. You ARE NOT helping. You ae TROLLING and just trying to fan flames. Go back to whatever bridge you came out from under, and let people who have experienced the same unexpected behavior compare notes. Without having you standing on the sidelines throwing greasy french fries at everyone.

Take your indignant self-righteous Steam fanboi-ism elsewhere.

Originally posted by Suntio:
This is exactly the same problem Ive been having few days.

If I click for example a link under EuroTruck2 game starting page, it opens external webbrowser and not Steam own news page as it did earlier.

But, in the mean time, if I open the feedback page (dont know what it is called in english), under my username, and I have that same news showing up in the feedback page, now it opens the proper Steam browser page.

@IFIYGD, could you test if the latter is happening to you too? That could maybe confirm that it is a bug.

Yes, that is exactly the same behavior, if by feedback page you mean ypour activity feed. Links from that Community section work as expected. The same exact link, shown in my games library under "Recent News" or in a posted News Annoucement by a game developer or studio will open an external browser, which is not expected behavior.

And this behavior began happening after a rather large updatewhen launching Steam on my machine, waiting for the sign in window. Not the usual small, fast update Steam does, to update the Store or Community Home page. But a large update to the Client. But since Steam makes finding changelogs for the Stable Client next to impossible to do, I have no idea what was in that update that may have caused this chage in behaviors.

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Muppet among Puppets May 10, 2018 @ 6:34pm

Originally posted by IFIYGD:
Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:
Then make an easy to understand bug report to support.
In this calm form, without throwing random words like virus around, it shows something is wrong then.
Look kiddo, I asked about an unexpected behavior. I was not making a bug report,l becuase I did not know if it was something being experienced by others or not.

You, in you infinite wisdom, as a layperson and NOT a Valve Mod, Support Employee, or employee of any kind, decided to skip on in and strat posting nonsense, and telling me and others how to speak, what word to use, how to use them, ,blah, blah, blah. You ARE NOT helping. You ae TROLLING and just trying to fan flames. Go back to whatever bridge you came out from under, and let people who have experienced the same unexpected behavior compare notes. Without having you standing on the sidelines throwing greasy french fries at everyone.

Take your indignant self-righteous Steam fanboi-ism elsewhere.

And here we go again,
You have the ability to fill random stuff into posts, and then the bit you want to tell.

If you report a bug, no one cares what sites you visited in the past and how they opened new windows because you did not make the right settings in your browser, or what you think about other people or what names you call them.

Internal links seem to not open always in the client anymore.
That is the bug.
One sentence. And give an example.
The rest is random stuff.

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