Open links in another browser

[tsuliwaensis]

Is there a way to open a link in one browser in another browser? For example, if I want all links to Google Docs to open with Chrome while using Safari.

[johnste]

Finicky does not currently support this, would require browser plugins to be written for each browser that should trigger this. Finicky has basic (unused/untested) support for urls to be opened with the finicky:// or finickys:// protocols that could be used for this.

[igorlg]

My use case is a bit different, but related: I need to be able to force a given URL to be open in one browser or another, e.g.: 'github.com' is handled by Chrome, but I might want to force it in Safari, or Firefox.

As a workaround I managed to do the following:

excuse the ugly code

module.exports = {
    handlers: [
        {
                match: ({ url }) => url.hash.include("finicky:"),
                browser: ({ url }) => {
                        return switch(url.hash.replace(/finicky:/g, '')) {
                                case 'Chrome':
                                        'Google Chrome.app'
                                        break
                                case 'Safari':
                                        'Safari.app'
                                        break
                                case 'Firefox':
                                        'Firefox.app'
                                        break
                                default:
                                        'Google Chrome.app'
                                        break
                        }
                }
        },
        {
                match: ({ url }) => url.hostname === "github.com",
                browser: "Google Chrome.app"
        },
    ],

Expected behaviour:

• "https://github.com" opens in Chrome
• "https://github.com#finicky:Safari" opens in Safari
• "https://github.com#finicky:Firefox" opens in Firefox
• "https://github.com#finicky:xyz" opens in Chrome (as per switch default)

It's not ideal, and it'll break if the URL already contains an anchor, but allows me to manipulate the target browser in other tools simply by adding an anchor. I haven't found a way to remove the anchor in the handler. I can't do it in the rewrite section, as then it wouldn't match my custom handler.

Before Finicky I was using Choosy. It has an API that enables this kind of setup more cleanly: https://www.choosyosx.com/api

[axeltidemann]

I would also like this feature, to have links in Chrome open up in Safari.

[petty]

I created a Bookmarklet that emulates Choosy or Bumpr functionality. Granted it's really basic but launches a popup from which you can select a new browser for the current page's URL: https://github.com/johnste/finicky/discussions/251

[emergy]

use browser extension tampermonkey or greasemonkey with this scrip

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Open Link in Finicky
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.1
// @description  try to take over the world!
// @author       You
// @match        https://*/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
  'use strict';

  const selectors = [
    'a[href^="https://grafana.my-domain.com"]',
  ];

  selectors.forEach(selector => {
    document.querySelectorAll(selector).forEach(item => {
      const [proto, url] = item.href.split('://')

      // original protocol support
      item.href = `finicky://finicky.open.${proto}/${url}`

      // or use this to not use finicky rewrite
      // it uses the http protocol
      // item.href = `finicky://${url}`
    })
  })
    //    Finicky rewrite
    //    { // Open link in Finicky browser user script
    //      // finicky://finicky.open.{protocol}/{host}... to
    //      // {protocol}://host/...
    //      match: ({url}) => url.host.split('.').slice(0, -1).join('.') === 'finicky.open',
    //      url: ({url, urlString}) => `${ url.host.split('.')[2] }://${ urlString.replace(/^\w+:\/\/[^/]+\//, '') }`,
    //    }
})();