[Bug]: Can no longer stop extension for certain chromium click-through pages

[DianaNites]

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v0.15.0

What did you expect to happen? What happened instead?

The problem is that some websites, in 2025, still don't have HTTPS, and I have chromium configured with "Always use secure connections" on, which pops a warning before loading an insecure website.

When such a site is opened from a tab with the extension active, the extension is also active in that page, but also prevents being able to load that page by clicking continue through the warning.

What I used to do was simply click "Stop Archiving" in the extension popup, click through the warning, and then start archiving the page again. This no longer works, as the "Stop Archiving" button is missing. Now, I have to close the page entirely, and then re-open it, to detach webrecorder from it.

Also noteworthy is that webrecorder cannot be started on such a page directly, reporting "Error Details: Cannot attach to this target", only via a from an existing session link.

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Step-by-step reproduction instructions

1. On chromium, ensure Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Security -> "Always use secure connections" is toggled on
2. Start archiving this page
3. ctrl click this link http://http.badssl.com/ http://filmicworlds.com/blog/upsampling-via-multisampling/
   • Or any HTTP-only link of your preference. I tried neverssl.com but it seems chromium has some hard-coded and not clearly documented to users warning exclusion for it and some other well known captive portal helpers. Isnt it great to have silent exclusions to security awareness features?
4. Observe the initial extension state, it should have a green checkmark, reporting "Archiving: Idle, Continue Browsing"
5. Observe that you cannot stop archiving it, nor "Continue to site" or "Go back", and any attempt to do so changes the state to yellow, reporting "Archiving: 1 URLs pending, please wait before loading a new page." forever.

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