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JadenGeller / Helium

A floating browser window for OS X
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Set as default browser on macOS Catalina #272

Open joshcho opened 4 years ago

joshcho commented 4 years ago

Is it possible to set Helium as default browser? I am using googler (google CLI) and would love it if a search result when opened would open in a floating window. But I cannot set Helium as a default browser because it is not recognized by mac.

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JadenGeller commented 4 years ago

I don't expect many people to want this feature, but I'm happy to add it if you point me to the right macOS API docs for this. I didn't find anything in my quick search.

AlJohri commented 4 years ago

might work well with Choosy to open media links automatically with Helium

https://www.choosyosx.com/

slashlos commented 4 years ago

I'll 2nd Jaden's comments. The added support might be too heavy a lift for so few an audience, and suspect the "how to" is not trivial. In my port I had adopted the route ala "Brave" to be minimalist, trackless and light.

christefano commented 3 years ago

Just stumbled upon this issue. I’d just requested Choosy compatibility in issue #282

From what I can tell, Choosy support is different from Helium being the system’s default web browser, so I’ll leave my issue up and link to it from here.