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This is FORK from DanTup/BrowserSelector

This modification is for interactive usage. So every time you click a link in a non-browser a menu is open.

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[Menu screen]

Browser Selector

Small utility to launch a different browser from selection.

Read the blog post about this here.

Setting Up

  1. Grab the latest release and extract to a folder somewhere on your PC.
  2. Open the BrowserSelector.ini file and customise paths to your browsers and domain patterns (see below).
  3. Run BrowserSelector.exe --register from this folder to register the tool in Windows as a web browser.
  4. Open the "Choose a default browser" screen in Windows (you can simply search for "default browser" from the start screen).
  5. Select BrowserSelector as the default browser.

So far, it has been tested on the following:

  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 10 Pro

Usage

BrowserSelector.exe --register
    Register as web browser

BrowserSelector.exe --unregister
    Unregister as web browser

BrowserSelector.exe --create
    Creates a default/sample settings file

BrowserSelector.exe "http://example.org/"
    Launch example.org

BrowserSelector.exe [--wait] "http://example.org/"
    Launch example.org, optionally waiting for the browser to close..

BrowserSelector.exe "http://example.org/" "http://example.com/" [...]
    Launches multiple urls

BrowserSelector.exe "my bookmark file.url"
    Launches the URL specified in the .url file.

BrowserSelector.exe "my bookmark file.webloc"
    Launches the URL specified in the .webloc (osx) file.

If you use the --wait flag with multiple urls/files each will open one after the other, in order. Each waits for the previous to close before opening. Using the --wait flag is tricky, though, since many (most) browsers open new urls as a new tab in an existing instance.

To open multiple urls at the same time and wait for them, try the following:

BrowserSelector.exe "url-or-file" "url-or-file" --wait "url-or-file"

Config

Config is a poor mans INI file:

; Default browser is first in list
; Use `{url}` to specify UWP app browser details
[browsers]
chrome = C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
ff = C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
edge = microsoft-edge:{url}
ie = iexplore.exe
chrome_prof8 = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --profile-directory="Profile 8"

; Url preferences.
; Only * is treated as a special character (wildcard).
; Matches are domain-only. Protocols and paths are ignored.
; Use "*.blah.com" for subdomains, not "*blah.com" as that would also match "abcblah.com".
[urls]
microsoft.com = ie
*.microsoft.com = ie

; Use my project-based Chrome profile
myproject.live = chrome_prof8
myproject.local = chrome_prof8

; if the key is wrapped in /'s, it is treated as a regex.
/sites\.google\.com/a/myproject.live\.com/ = chrome_prof8

google.com = chrome
visualstudio.com = edge

Browsers

chrome = C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
chrome_prof8 = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --profile-directory="Profile 8"
  • Browser exes must be exact paths to the browser executable.
  • Arguments are optional. However, if you provide arguments the exe must be enclosed in quotes.
  • If there are no arguments, then the exe paths do not need to be quoted.

Special cases:

edge = microsoft-edge:{url}
  • For special browsers, you can include the {url} flag. This allows better control over the browser command-line arguments.
  • This is required when specifying UWP app's such as Microsoft Edge.
  • By default, the url is used as an argument when launching the exe. If the {url} flag is specified, it will not be added to the arguments. (In other words, it won't be added twice..)

Urls

In this fork URL matching is removed (for now)