Navigation works on some pages and not others

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I am able to get the left-click navigation function (NAV), which is new as of version 0.4.0, to work on certain pages and not others. I am using this extension on my local server with links that have the pattern "*://localhost/*/*.mp4" to open mp4 files using mpv in Linux. The extension works with NAV when I open a directory in chrome that is a softlink to a directory outside of the server. NAV does not work when I include the same link addresses in a web page that is not in that softlinked directory. If the links on the pages are identical, why would NAV open them on one page and not another? Have others had NAV work well for them and if so please share what settings are you using?

[nmsutton]

I found the presence of some forms in the HTML can cause this. For example, in some cases links in a form can not open correctly in an external app with this extension.

[nmsutton]

A new development here is that since I upgraded my Chrome browser, the limited ability NAV was able to work in Chrome no longer works. I upgraded from Version 89.0.4389.114 to Version 91.0.4472.77. The external application button version stayed the same it appears, version 0.4.2.

I am able to have it working in Firefox version 84.0.1. This was only able to be the case when I enabled the optional permissions for the plugin "Access browser activity during navigation" and "Access your data for all websites" through the manage permissions extension options. I wonder if something changed with Chrome's permissions access. I do have "Allow access to file URLs" in Chrome's extension options. In case it is relevant, I also upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 (released 2020) to Mint 20.1 (released 2021).