Chrome extension malfunction after auto-update to 22.4

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Just to add to what my colleague Maciej @loginerror posted above.

22.4 Simulate Click not functioning in some scenarios . This happens when certain webpage buttons have handlers in “javascript: ” format .

Example of a button with a “javascript:” handler

<form action="javascript: window.location.href='FormHandler.html';" method="get"

Root cause

This is a technical limitation introduced by Google’s rollout of the Manifest V3 update to their Chrome extension platform.

Proposed workarounds

Please try and use as input methods, the following :

  • 1) ChromiumApi
  • 2) Send Window Messages
  • 3) Hardware Events
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