Protected URLs

Chrome and Firefox (and other browsers) do not allow websites or extensions to open some URLs. These privileged locations include:

• Pages that start with chrome://…, about:... or edge:...
  • e.g. chrome://history/, about:config or about:preferences
• Link to local files on your device with a URL that begins with file:///...

These pages and URLs can not be accessed via apps or extensions for security reasons. This is why a bookmark added to nightTab with a privileged browsers URL will not open.

One of the goals of this project is also to not need any additional users permissions to run. As such there are no plans to access user bookmarks saved to the browser.