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Suppress the Zotero security prompt

Stop Zotero from showing a confirmation dialog every time it opens an obsidian:// link.

Zotero shows a security confirmation dialog each time it opens an obsidian:// URI (for example, when you click a backlink in Zotero that points back to an Obsidian note). You can suppress this dialog by adding a preference in Zotero's Config Editor.

Zotero security confirmation dialog asking whether to open an obsidian link

Add the protocol-handler preference

Open Zotero Settings

In Zotero, open Edit > Settings (Windows/Linux) or Zotero > Settings (macOS).

Open the Config Editor

Click the Advanced tab, then click Config Editor. Click Accept Risk and Continue when prompted.

Search for the preference

In the search field, type:

network.protocol-handler.external.obsidian

No matching entry appears because this preference does not exist by default.

Create the preference

Click the + (New) button on the right side of the search bar. The type defaults to Boolean and the value to true. Confirm the entry is created.

Zotero Config Editor showing the new network.protocol-handler.external.obsidian preference set to Boolean

Zotero now opens obsidian:// links without a confirmation dialog.

Links triggered from outside Zotero

If prompts still appear for links opened from other applications (not from within Zotero itself), additionally create the preference network.protocol-handler.prompt-from-external and set it to false using the same procedure: search for the key, click + (New), set the type to Boolean, and set the value to false.

Credit

Procedure adapted from zotero-markdb-connect.

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