Click on Go and choose the Go to Folder… option. Click anywhere on your Mac desktop to bring the Finder menu to the Menu Bar. Before you proceed with the steps, ensure to quit the Google Chrome app.ġ. If you are using any of these apps, you can use the steps below to stop Mac App Store from automatically opening whenever you click an app link. While we are talking about Google Chrome, these steps will work on any Chromium browser including Brave, Vivaldi, and more. Stop Google Chrome from auto-opening Mac App Store Here is how to stop Google Chrome from automatically opening Mac App Store. After scouring the web and testing several solutions mentioned in different support forums, we have finally found a solution. This is quite frustrating, and there’s no easy way to solve this issue. If you do this, any App Store link you click will open directly in Mac App Store. The problem arises when you enable the checkbox that reads Always allow to open links of this type in the associated app and then click the Open in App Store button. Normally, you either click the Cancel button to deny it or the Open in App Store to open the app in the Mac App Store. When you open an App Store link in the Google Chrome browser, it gives you the option to open the app in the Mac App Store.

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