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mortenn / BrowserPicker

Smart browser selector for Windows
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Backport the «Copy URL» feature to 1.7 #58

Closed vort3 closed 2 years ago

vort3 commented 2 years ago

This would be very useful, because sometimes you need just the link (for example, when some buttons in some apps try to open a link), but don't want to open your browser.

I don't plan to update to new versions anyway, because new versions require .NET 4.8 and I don't want to install it, so I'll keep using version 1.7.0. For other people that want to use old version but still want a way to copy URL to clipboard, here's the workaround:

Create a batch script (any text file with «.bat» as the extension) and paste this line: echo | set /p dummyName="%~1" | clip

Optionally, find any .png icon that symbolizes copying for you. You might need to change DPI so that icon is about 1 cm both vertically and horizontally.

Use the «Add browser» button to add your script as URL handler to BrowserPicker, use your icon as image, add any name you like. Worked for me on Windows 10 LTSC.

mortenn commented 2 years ago

I am planning a future release that moves to .NET 5 (6) and for that release, if it does not bloat the application too severely, I might look into bundling everything needed to run it.

mortenn commented 2 years ago

I've copied the feature to the 1.7 branch and will be releasing a new build soon.