A small application to select a browser every time you click a link anywhere. This is especially useful if you have multiple browsers or profiles, and you want to be able to open certain links in certain browsers.
Choosy Alternatives
Choosy is described as 'Opens links in different browsers as specified, according to rules, set by the user' and is a browser selector in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Choosy for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and F-Droid apps. The best Choosy alternative is URLCheck, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Choosy are Hurl - Choose a Browser, LinkSheet, Browser Tamer and Junction.
Alternatives list
When you click on a link, LinCastor Browser asks you to choose a browser to load the link with from a menu. Menu can contain a browser, an application but also AppleScript, shell script, Automator Workflow or even OS X share service.
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20 Browser Selector alternativesSimple rules-based automatic browser selection based on URLs. Provides fine-grained routing to desired browsers with full command-line string (for profile selection and other params if needed).
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
Browsly, the ultimate app designed to enhance your web browsing experience by giving you the freedom to open web pages in any browser of your choice.
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Take control of where to open your links with Proxly, the intelligent URL router that automatically directs links to the right browser at the right time.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- Nix Package Manager
- Flatpak
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For example, you are using Safari heavily in day life, but you'd like to use Chrome to open websites of work. You could add a rule for it, then every external links (links not in browser) will be opened in Chrome.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
Set it as your default browser and when opening a link from anywhere you'll get a neat selection which browser to use or use rules to automate which browsers to use for which links.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Firefox
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It's cheaper and easy to set up.