A vibe-coded Brave/Chromium extension that automatically intercepts steampowered.com and steamcommunity.com URLs and redirects them to the Steam desktop app via the steam:// protocol. Built with Manifest V3 and declarativeNetRequest, it supports game store pages, game hubs, and community profiles, with a toggleable on/off switch and redirect counter.
Since this extension is not published on the Chrome Web Store, it must be loaded manually as an unpacked extension.
Prerequisites: Any Chromium-based browser (Brave, Chrome, Edge, Opera, Vivaldi) installed on your machine.
Download the latest release and unzip the file Open your browser and navigate to the extensions page
Brave: brave://extensions
Chrome: chrome://extensions
Edge: edge://extensions
Opera: opera://extensions
Vivaldi: vivaldi://extensions
Enable Developer mode using the toggle in the top-right corner
Click Load unpacked
Select the steam-redirect-extension folder
The extension icon will appear in your toolbar — you're done
Note: Do not delete or move the extension folder after loading it. Your browser references it directly from its location on disk.