[Bug]: Browser extension dont work on macOS

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Guidelines

• [X] I have encountered this bug in the latest release of FreeTube.
• [X] I have searched the issue tracker for open and closed issues that are similar to the bug report I want to file, without success.
• [X] I have searched the documentation for information that matches the description of the bug I want to file, without success.
• [X] This issue contains only one bug.

Describe the bug

bug was reported in https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/discussions/2747

I did check:

• https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect/blob/b31c5bf75a8e7dfef9ef5e55b8479bd553978578/src/pages/background/background.js#L277
• https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect/blob/4709a6667d71c0e57c0de8664d106be073a338db/src/assets/javascripts/services.js#L164

But when I paste rewritten url in safari for example, it prompts to open in FreeTube, but the video does not start. I see just the default home page.

freetube://https://youtu.be/y9TizOUqsuc

Main takes:

This seems to be a macOS specific bug that doesn't exist in the Linux or Windows builds of FreeTube (macOS implements URL schemes differently than Windows and Linux).

[...] the relevant lines in FreeTube's code are here: src/main/index.js#L738-L748 src/renderer/App.js#L501-L505

Pulled from IRC:

on Linux and Windows, the operating system does this when you use a URL scheme: /path/to/freetube.exe freetube://https://youtu.be/y9TizOUqsuc on macOS the operating system sends an event to the app which in electron is open-url, so some how our handling of it is not working properly

Expected Behavior

Extensions should work with FT

Issue Labels

content not loading

FreeTube Version

0.17.1

Operating System Version

macOS

Installation Method

.dmg

Primary API used

Local API

Last Known Working FreeTube Version (If Any)

No response

Additional Information

No response

Nightly Build

• [ ] I have encountered this bug in the latest nightly build.

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[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

@absidue is this even an issue on our end? When i looked through the repo of both extensions we have listed it seems like they both dont support Safari.

[absidue]

The person the reported the issue wasn't using a extension, they were trying the URLs directly for what I can gather from their comments.

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