I finally got this to work. Jeeeeeeeeeeesus.
So, what worked was @macbeth’s very first solution at the top of this thread.
However, when copy pasting this line:
“ExternalProtocolDialogShowAlwaysOpenCheckbox”: true
The quotes somehow end up invalid. They show up but the file is not evaluated as expected. I only figured it out because I found another post somewhere in Google-land that offered the same solution and I just copy/pasted it again noticing that the syntax highlighting in vim changed.
So yeah, retyping the quotes, then restarting Chrome fixed it for me. Did you all hear my sigh of relief?!
Cheers,
frank