Scriptability ?

[bric3]

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I have two browsers, Chrome a constraint from my employer, and Firefox for my personal use. Depending on the URL I would like to open a particular browser, or show a popup to choose which one.

E.g. for slack, I would like to open some URLs in chrome and others in firefox. The logic can be tricky as the domain counts for authentication, but links use some ids in the url path.

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Having the ability to tweak the behavior via some scripting there would be quite useful.

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At this time I'm using a combination of Finicky, which has some issues (memory leak, and plain crash on some URLs).

At this time if my script don't know which browser to use, it invoke Browseraurus.

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[liias]

Hi!

E.g. for slack, I would like to open some URLs in chrome and others in firefox. The logic can be tricky as the domain counts for authentication, but links use some ids in the url path.

Could you expand on this example a bit - how does the script identify the target browser exactly? Maybe we can enhance matching logic. (the only no-no from my side is doing any requests from Browsers to the remote and reading cookies from a browser)

[bric3]

Hi @liias, the basic idea would have been something like Finicky is allowing, e.g. parse the opened url, and the script can choose which app to open, or which the "profile" of an app (for Chrome profiles).

[liias]

Hey! Do you have an example on what the script would do to decide which browser to use?

[bric3]

That's a public snippet of what I do with Finicky https://gist.github.com/bric3/f1863ed36d6bb57d46724e522c544d75

This public snippet is not updated to Finicky 4 (still in alpha/beta) at this time.

[liias]

Thank you for the example script.

Just to mention few features which are not obvious.

One feature that I have not advertised is specifying the app where link was opened from. It can be used by manually editing ~/Library/Application\ Support/software.Browsers/config.json file.
Each rule has source_app where you can specify the bundle id, e.g

{
"source_app": "org.whispersystems.signal-desktop",
"url_pattern": "github.com/Browsers-software/**",
"opener": {
"profile": "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome#Profile 1",
"incognito": false
}
},

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Second feature is built-in support for Slack teams. Opening link to slack should just open your Slack client in a correct place without configuring anything (might need to click refresh in Browsers though if you have recently added a new Slack workspace)

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E.g. for slack, I would like to open some URLs in chrome and others in firefox. The logic can be tricky as the domain counts for authentication, but links use some ids in the url path.

I didn't see it in the script you gave, but there are a few options for URL matching that maybe fits the bill? Some, though not great, documentation is at https://github.com/Browsers-software/browsers/wiki/Rules