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Just a note I've added this project to the AlternativeTo website. I used Choosy on OSX for a few years and was very happy. Recently am back on Windows and been looking at alternatives. I tried all those listed there and found this later on. Honnestly I feel like this one is the best at routing in a very fine-grained & customizable way. It just needs a decent GUI, and perhaps later on some browser extensions (per-browser projects ;-)) to achieve the "in-browser" routing, since those seem not to work for now (those never get routed to your app)... Just thinking out loud, this is how Choosy did it anyway. I'd contribute more if I knew my way around .Net, but I'm more into Java... Keep it up! :-)

https://alternativeto.net/software/browser-selector/

This is on ie9 with Chrome set as the first browser.
URLs that match my ie rules open in new windows. I'll check the reuse windows option when I get my windows machine out again.

At first i watn to thank you for this small but usefull piece of code.

I made some modifications in my fork https://github.com/stgolem/BrowserSelector

• Added interactive menu on url open
• Removed url matching (for now)

So i want to discuss with others, should we merge them together into something bigger and more user-friendly?

My direction is:

• Create more friendly UI for menu
• Add some basic visual settings
• Add installed browsers auto detection, we can take some detection ideas from https://github.com/darktrojan/openwith
• Bring back url matching to shrink browsers list selection

Please share your ideas with me.

On those two browsers (Waterfox G4.1.1 and LibreWolf 99.0-1 - both 64bit) 100% reproducible is getting error window with such content:

Unable to launch browser, sorry :(

Please send a copy of this error to DanTup.

System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): Nie można odnaleźć określonego pliku
   w System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithShellExecuteEx(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
   w System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()
   w System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
   w DanTup.BrowserSelector.Program.LaunchBrowser(String url, Boolean waitForClose).

used configuration like this:
BrowserSelector.txt
also I've tested with quotes.

Works fine with Firefox, Vivaldi, Chrome.

When I try to open a link from an Outlook email nothing happens and I have this log in the events logs :

Something unexpected went wrong with this URL: https://

It's working fine when using Chrome, Edge or Firefox as default brower.

The tool fails when a chromium browser is called using a command line option like user-data-dir.
The use case is using one browser with more than one instance for different usages (programming vs. office) and calling them like
C:\opera\launcher.exe --user-data-dir="C:\Opera\profiles\profileA"

Provide a text box where you can copy the URL as CURL command for easy pasting into a shell

thanks!

Thanks a lot for the program, it is helpful already.

However, sometimes a per-url-choice would come in handy, is it possible to code a tiny GUI dropdown that would let the user pick a browser if the given site is not specified in the ini?

When not being local administrator, and running "BrowserSelector --register", the application does not provide any output, but All Control Panel Items -> Default Programs -> "Set Your Default Programs" does not list "BrowserSelector" as a default program, therefore does not work.

Expected behaviour: provide clear error message when running "BrowserSelector --register", for example when registry entry cannot be created.

some browsers install themselves to the %LocalAppData% Directory inside %UserProfile% would be nice if you'd be able to use Environment variables. FYI %ProgramFiles% is a thing.

As a workaround I use cmd.exe for the variable expansion, which works but is a bit of a hack.

brave = "C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" /c start %LocalAppData%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe

also maybe update the 32bit paths in the documentation

ff = "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
ffdev = "C:\Program Files\Firefox Developer Edition\firefox.exe"

Would be nice if this ran in .NET Core.

When I choose "Version history" or "View on Dropbox.com" in the Windows Explorer context menu of a file in my Dropbox, I get the "Usage" dialog box.

The specific URL given to BrowserSelector.exe by the Dropbox context menu command is a simple file URL on the form file:///C:/Users/MyUserName/AppData/Local/Temp/dbfidti_h6j.html#f0387784fbe3c8c15a2532530f (I changed the cryptic codes, but the pattern is the same).

I have to turn BrowserSelector completely off as default browser due to this, effectively rendering the program useless. :-(

I guess it could be solved with changing the line

if (arg.StartsWith("http://", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) || arg.StartsWith("https://", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) || arg.StartsWith("ftp://", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))

to

if (arg.StartsWith("http://", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) || arg.StartsWith("https://", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) || arg.StartsWith("ftp://", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) || arg.StartsWith("file://", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))

in the file Program.cs, but I'm unsure how that affects the detections or .url files etc. in the lines that follow.

BrowserSelector can't open local file with file:///C:/TEMP/xxx.html URI.

Run:

BrowserSelector.exe --unregister

under Windows 7 and BrowserSelctor will crash.

After something deleted my BrowserSelector config file, I got the following exception:

This happens for URLs

• designated for Firefox 87.0 (64-Bit)
• designated for Microsoft Edge Version 89.0.774.68 (Offizielles Build) (64-Bit)

My BrowserSelector is of version 0.3.0.0 and has worked perfectly

After I restored the config file, everything worked again

PS: You should perhaps write something more explicit than (e.g. the URL of this repo)

Please send a copy of this error to DanTup

Mentioned in #5; it doesn't seem to show up despite the registry keys.

This comment suggests that everything works just using HKCU so maybe we can tweak this to not require admin?

Trying to install Atlassian SourceTree, I cannot log in to my Bit Bucket account. The browser (Chrome) just hangs and the sign-in process fails to complete, making installation of SourceTree impossible.

Workaround is to set Edge as the default browser, install SourceTree, then set BrowserSelecteor as default browser again.

When an url contains an explicit port specification (like: "http://my.domain.tld:/whatever") a rule like this one:
my.domain.tld = <browser nickname>
doesn't triggers
one have to explicitely write the rule like this:
my.domain.tldr:<port> = <browser nickname>