Comments on: BrowserMaster: choose your browser on-the-fly whenever you click on a link

By: fritz freiheit.com blog » Link dump

fritz freiheit.com blog » Link dump — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:57:43 +0000

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By: Samer

Samer — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:45:37 +0000

@Joe,
Thanks for letting me know about Browser Chooser; I actually like it more than BrowserMaster.

@Fred,
These apps work in situations where you cannot right click on a shortcut, such as links in emails, IMs, etc.

By: vocivoci

vocivoci — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:49:31 +0000

i dont want programs to open any url esp. after installation. you can spread this on any file-type for eveything opened without a click of my mouse.
hm, comodo firewall has its paranoia option to confirm every exe-action… bad.

By: FredThompson

FredThompson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:54:52 +0000

Uh…why bloat your system with this?
Right-click on a link and you get an “Open With” submenu.

By: boony

boony — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:38:32 +0000

@Joe:

Thanks for the link to Browser Chooser.
It does force the user to make a choice (no time-out), and offers a choice for local links as well.
On my system, it uses about 26 MBs of memory while it’s open, but that’s just for a few seconds while you choose a browser, and then it closes.
Pretty handy.

By: ILoveFreeSoftware

ILoveFreeSoftware — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:38:26 +0000

This is a software that I might use in some cases. However, I won’t like my links to open after a delay of 2 seconds. Probably, there should be a hot key to enable the browser chooser for any link. For example, if I click on a link while pressing SHIFT key, only then I should get an option to choose a browser, otherwise the behavior should be to open default browser.

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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:53:01 +0000

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By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:07:00 +0000

It’s not quite so original: there’s also Browser Chooser, which has a GUI and doesn’t default to a specific browser. BrowserMaster showed up on CodePlex just 10 days after Browser Chooser debuted.

To make either one to work for local links, you can tell Windows to use it as the default program for opening .htm and .html files with the “Open with…” option in the right-click menu.