sashow1000 Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Nexus Mod Manager doesn't work About few weeks ago I was on my PC. I went to Skyrim Nexus to download some mods. I ran the Nexus Mod Manager and when I tried to download a file it didn't start to download... 1 day before this NMM worked fine. I did not mess with the files at all and I believe I re-scanned the installed games. It is sometimes annoying to download the files manually. If somebody else has this problem or knows how to fix this please tell me. - Sashow1000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrakeTheDragon Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Are you by chance using Chrome on Windows 8.1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sashow1000 Posted June 6, 2014 Author Share Posted June 6, 2014 (edited) Are you by chance using Chrome on Windows 8.1?Yes I am, but it worked few weeks on Chrome, but not anymore. Edited June 6, 2014 by sashow1000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrakeTheDragon Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Yes, Chrome sneaked in a silent update around that time it seems, which did break the execution of non-Windows-Store url protocols, like the NMM's "nxm". You can read more about it here in the latest News Article. I'll quote the relevant parts here as well though: In other news, a lot of people have noticed that the "Download With Manager" button is not working for them on the site. Firstly, let me say that this is nothing to do with us, in that we haven't caused this problem. The problem arises with the combination of Windows 8.1 and the Google Chrome browser, and only this combination. NMM works fine in IE and FireFox with Windows 8.1. For a slightly technical explanation of what's happening: a recent silent update to Chrome has forced the browser to no longer recognise third-party URL protocols, like the "nxm" URL the Nexus sites use to start your download in NMM. Instead, Chrome will now only accept URL protocols that are classed as "safe" by Windows 8/Microsoft, which at this time is basically just the Windows Store. Great update, Google. The fix for this issue involves editing a Google Chrome config file to tell Chrome that the Nexus Mod Manager is a safe program to accept URL requests from. Google haven't coded any sort of system (like FireFox has) to ask if you want to trust the Nexus Mod Manager protocol, it just refuses to work. That's just plain laziness on Google's part.Version 0.50.0 of NMM has added a button to the settings menu that will attempt to edit this Google Chrome config file so your download button will work again. It's experimental, and while it won't break anything, the worst it will do is just continue to not make the button work for you. We won't know until people use it. However, we can completely understand why you might not want NMM editing any config files unrelated to NMM, so for you guys I'm afraid the only option is to manually download then add files to NMM (very, very easy to do) or simply use a different browser. Once again, this problem hasn't been caused by us, and we're slightly miffed Google have taken this lazy approach.We're obviously interested to know if this button fixes it for people who've experienced this issue, so please let us know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimboslice85 Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 use firefox or ie and u should be fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyacathusarullistad Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Yeah, downgrading to generally inferior products because of an single issue that's already been corrected is definitely the way to go. [/sarcasm]The newest version of NMM has a fix for this issue that corrects a poor security decision/oversight made on Google's part. No need to switch browsers or roll back your OS or anything like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taltamir Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 What does this fix actually do and does it need to be applied for windows 10? and will it hurt anything if I apply it on windows 10? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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