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.
Switchyard Alternatives
Switchyard is described as 'Modern rules-based URL launcher ready to replace your default browser' and is a browser selector in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Switchyard for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and F-Droid apps. The best Switchyard alternative is URLCheck, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Switchyard are Hurl - Choose a Browser, LinkSheet, Browser Tamer and Junction.
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16 UTM Stripper alternativesThis is a Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox extension that strips Google Analytics (i.e. Urchin Tracking Monitor) tokens from URL query strings.
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.
Strips tracking codes from URLs across 25+ platforms like Facebook and Instagram, processes links offline with no permissions required, offers browser mode, configurable post-clean actions, history tracking, privacy-friendly conversions, and open-source code.
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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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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
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