A recent update to Chrome 77 intentionally removed the "remember this action" checkbox when launching applications through the browser. There are a ton of Google forum posts about how this has broken various applications, but for vSphere, it's mostly just a nuisance to have an extra button click required to log in and open a remote console. Here is the workaround they've given us:
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/14194567?msgid=15347344
Basically, modifying a Chrome settings file to add the applications as an excluded "scheme" from this "security feature." But there's no information about how to determine what this scheme name is for the application you're looking to whitelist. Does anyone know what the scheme name is for vmware-cip-launcher.exe and the VMware Remote Console, or where that name could be found?
Thanks!
Additional references:
Full thread of workaround: Chrome 77, "always open these types of links in the associated app" is missed!!! - Google Chrome Help
Chrome commit: 4e0e7e532b04eef14f05077872629a2ccb763530 - chromium/src - Git at Google