{"id":760,"date":"2008-10-31T23:00:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=760"},"modified":"2021-12-29T18:31:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T13:01:25","slug":"go-to-registry-key-right-click-chrome-firefox-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/go-to-registry-key-right-click-chrome-firefox-ie\/","title":{"rendered":"Jump to a Registry Key via Right-Click in Chrome, Firefox or IE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of our articles contain information about modifying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/tag\/registry\/\">registry<\/a>. To quickly open the Registry Editor to a selected key from the web browser, you can browser add-ons available for Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Google Chrome &#8220;Chome Registry Jumper&#8221; extension<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/chome-registry-jumper\/ihjgnaklogcickonfphakiihgjpkdheh\/related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Chome Registry Jumper<\/a> extension available at the Chrome Web Store opens the selected registry key in Regedit. This extension uses Chrome&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.chrome.com\/apps\/nativeMessaging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Native Messaging<\/a> feature and runs Sysinternals RegJump using PowerShell in the background.<\/p>\n<p>To make this extension work, you must do these things (as the extension manual says):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download Sysinternals RegJump from Microsoft, and extract it to:\n<pre>%LOCALAPPDATA%\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default\\Extensions\\ihjgnaklogcickonfphakiihgjpkdheh\\1.0.1_0\\host\\regjump<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Register the host program to communicate with RegJump, by running <code>register-host.bat<\/code> located in:\n<pre>%LOCALAPPDATA%\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default\\Extensions\\ihjgnaklogcickonfphakiihgjpkdheh\\1.0.1_0\\host<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ll now see the option named <strong>Open in Registry Editor<\/strong> in the right-click menu when you select a registry path text in a webpage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9804\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/chrome-open-regedit-extension.png\" alt=\"chrome open regedit extension\" width=\"734\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, your anti-virus program may block registry launch attempts by this extension. Malwarebytes, for example, blocks it saying <strong>Exploit automatically blocked: Malwarebytes detected and blocked an exploit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9803\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/chrome-open-regedit-extension-exploitpng.png\" alt=\"chrome open regedit extension\" width=\"475\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Malwarebytes seems to consider the native messaging (in general) as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/01\/23\/webex_hid_url_for_remote_command_execution\/\">exploit<\/a> and blocks the extension from launching any script in the background. If you&#8217;re curious, visit the ChromeRegJump project&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/hmemcpy\/ChromeRegJump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GitHub page<\/a> to see the source code. Also, you can go through the PowerShell script file <code>nativehost.ps1<\/code> in the extension folder here:<\/p>\n<pre>%LocalAppData%\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default\\Extensions\\ihjgnaklogcickonfphakiihgjpkdheh\\1.0.1_0\\host<\/pre>\n<p>I&#8217;ve inspected the PowerShell script <code>nativehost.ps1<\/code> (for Chrome Registry Jumper v1.0.1 by Igal Tabachnik) and found nothing malicious. It simply launches regjump.exe in elevated mode.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re convinced that the extension is safe, you may add necessary exceptions in your anti-virus program. Since the program is available at the Chrome Web Store, it gives us some hope that the extension (and their future versions) must have gone through some sort of vetting process, although there have been some <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.radware.com\/security\/2018\/05\/nigelthorn-malware-abuses-chrome-extensions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">malware incidents<\/a> at the Chrome Web Store seen in the past.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Open In RegEdit Add-on for Firefox<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.thunderbird.net\/en-us\/firefox\/addon\/open-regedit-key\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Open In RegEdit<\/a> add-on for Mozilla Firefox works by setting the LastKey registry value and then opening the Registry Editor (regedit.exe). Note that we&#8217;ve covered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/regjump-quickly-jump-registry-path-clipboard\/\">Regedit &#8211; LastKey<\/a> method previously.<\/p>\n<p>Start Mozilla Firefox and navigate to Open In RegEdit add-on page. Click the <b>Add to Firefox<\/b> button and install the add-on.<\/p>\n<p>Open a new instance of Mozilla Firefox and navigate to a Web page that contains information about modifying the registry. Select the text (registry key), right-click and choose <b>Open In Regedit<\/b>. Registry Editor will open directly to the selected key.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/archived\/firefox-regedit.png\" width=\"365\" height=\"191\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Internet Explorer &#8220;Go to registry key&#8221; extension<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written a context menu Add-on (Menu Extension) for Internet Explorer that launches the Registry Editor and jumps to the specified registry key directly.<\/p>\n<p>First, download <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/downloads\/regjump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">RegJump<\/a> from Microsoft Sysinternals site. Unzip the file and move RegJump.exe to the Windows directory. RegJump is a command-line tool that takes a registry path and makes Regedit open to that path.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/archived\/jump_to_reg_ie.zip\">jump_to_reg_ie.zip<\/a>, unzip and extract the contents to a folder.<\/li>\n<li>Double-click regjump.reg to run it.<\/li>\n<li>Move the file regjump.htm to the <b>C:\\Windows\\Web<\/b> directory.<\/li>\n<li>Open a new instance of Internet Explorer and navigate to a Web page that contains information about modifying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/tag\/registry\/\">registry<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Select the text (registry key), right-click and choose <b>Go To Registry Key<\/b>. Registry Editor will open directly to the selected key.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/archived\/regjump.png\" width=\"485\" height=\"335\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of our articles contain information about modifying the registry. To quickly open the Registry Editor to a selected key from the web browser, you can browser add-ons available for Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[264,441,480],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-internet-explorer","tag-internet-explorer","tag-registry","tag-scripts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4308,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/registry-editor-gets-address-bar-feature-windows-10\/","url_meta":{"origin":760,"position":0},"title":"Registry Editor Gets the Address Bar Feature in Windows 10","author":"Ramesh","date":"October 8, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Windows 10 Insider Preview 14942 has a interesting new feature which Microsoft didn't document. 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This extension works fine in all versions of Windows, including Windows 10.After adding this extension, you'll see the following\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Internet Explorer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Internet Explorer","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/category\/microsoft\/internet-explorer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"open with browser extension for IE","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ie-extensions-1.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ie-extensions-1.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ie-extensions-1.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1411,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/regjump-quickly-jump-registry-path-clipboard\/","url_meta":{"origin":760,"position":2},"title":"Jump to a Registry Key (Stored in Clipboard) Directly Using RegJump","author":"Ramesh","date":"January 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"RegJump is a super tool from Windows Sysinternals that exists for a very long time, launches the Registry Editor automatically and jumps to the specified registry path. 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