finicky

I use https://github.com/johnste/finicky

There is an open source web browser proxy thing called finicky [0]. I use at work that lets me redirect urls clicked in other apps like slack to specific browers (firefox / chrome) or even specific chrome profiles. It'll also allow you to rewrite the urls. [0] https://github.com/johnste/finicky

In addition to making the link look shady, it adds considerable lag to opening the link. I'm using Finicky[1] on Mac to rewrite the URL by extracting the original URL from the query params[2]. 1: https://github.com/johnste/finicky 2: https://github.com/fphilipe/dotfiles/blob/31e3d18fe5f51b2fd8...

Related: https://github.com/johnste/finicky, “A macOS app for customizing which browser to start”. Write a JSON file to tell it when to open a link in a certain browser, to strip certain strings like utm codes, etc

Just curious, did you explore finicky(https://github.com/johnste/finicky) or Choosy(https://choosy.app)?

Yes, I'd love to do that. There is in fact already an app that does this on macOs (https://github.com/johnste/finicky). And you can chain them so that finicky runs first and then calls a chooser UI "browser" as a fallback. But I would like to incorporate it into my app so that I don't have to run two apps (and so that I can make it work cross-platform).

If you want to avoid that, but have control of where urls are opened (and use a mac); https://github.com/johnste/finicky

I'm currently experimenting with "link eye" from FDroid on Android. There's also [finicky](https://github.com/johnste/finicky) for MacOS.

Have you tried making a different desktop entry/shortcut for each Firefox profile and then setting a browser picker as your default browser? - Junction (Linux browser picker): https://github.com/sonnyp/Junction - Finicky (macOS browser rule setter): https://github.com/johnste/finicky and Browserosaurus (macOS browser picker): https://github.com/will-stone/browserosaurus - Hurl (Windows browser picker): https://github.com/U-C-S/Hurl

The use of tools like Finicky (https://github.com/johnste/finicky) have made it pretty easy for me segregate certain workloads to certain browsers (as long as the links are opened from outside of the current browser). Safari is my daily driver, but I only take Google Meet meetings in Chrome and Teams meetings in Edge. I’ve also forced certain JIRA URLs to different browsers (Firefox or Edge, depending), because I have to be logged in as particular users for them. I rarely use other browsers for anything else, but will occasionally test things in them—but using the separate browsers has been really good for segregating certain classes of work.

I use Finicky to seamlessly route links to the right place (browsers and apps, such as Zoom so you don't have to bounce in a browser then the app). You can use the args param in the browser callback to get incognito mode for your matches (I've confirmed this snippet works for Brave; others may vary): browser: ({ urlString }) => ({ name: 'Brave Browser', args: ['-incognito', urlString], }), https://github.com/johnste/finicky

Have been using this for a few years and the most amazing usecase is being able to switch between multiple chrome windows, just like windows used to let me do "same app, different window instances", with a preview! The other thing that works well with this for a life upgrade on a mac is finicky (GitHub.com/johnste/finicky )

This can also be done with Finicky and some configuration, and doesn’t require anything that observes the pasteboard. Here’s the section of the config (~/.finicky.js) that sets it up; the actual tracker cleaning is the last item in that list and is based on the above. https://github.com/halostatue/dotfiles/blob/main/private_dot... https://github.com/johnste/finicky

If you are on a Mac, have a look at finicky to manage which URLs should open in a specific browser. https://github.com/johnste/finicky