Lock Screen - Launch URL in Chrome

JW

Hi,

Is there a way to launch a URL from the lock screen specifically in Chrome? If I user Browsers:// it doesn't appear to use chrome and although I can get the URL I need, I need it specifically in chrome due to various compatibility issues.

Any help here would be appreciated.

7 years ago
Android
ANSWERS
BR
Ben Ragland
7 years ago

Can you post a screenshot of your lockdown profile?

It looks like you can use browser:// and browsers:// for http/https but there may also be another component where we need to set Chrome as a default browser via script.

JW
Joe Walker
7 years ago

Sure, let me know if you need to see anything else.

BR
Ben Ragland
7 years ago

Have you tried adding "https://" to the url?

JW
Joe Walker
7 years ago

Yes,

Https:/launches in a default browser but not Chrome

Browsers launches in SOTI Surf, so guess soti surf is set as the default browser?

Did you say there maybe a way to set the default browser to Chrome Via a script as that may work for me?

BR
Ben Ragland
7 years ago

Ok, then refer to this post and you should be able to script Chrome as default browser. Let me know if it works because I am interested in this myself.

https://discussions.soti.net/thread/what-is-the-script-command-to-pull-a-uri/

BR
Ben Ragland
7 years ago

Hi Joe, did my last reply work for your solution?

G
GMod@SOTI
7 years ago

Hi Joe, 

It may also be possible to specify this action using an Android Intent.
Please try to add the following as a Lockdown item:


Intent://REPLACEWITHURL#Intent;scheme=http;action=android.intent.action.VIEW;component=com.android.chrome;end


Substitute "REPLACEWITHURL" with your URL and see if that works for you.

Regards, 
~G