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Thing I would like to have: default browser exception lists, so (e.g.) all google.com stuff would open in Chrome, everything else in FF
Feb 18, 2024 at 6:08pmWeb
Show threadThomas SibleyFeb 18, 2024
@genehack to what end?
Show threadgenehackFeb 18, 2024
@trs $ORK uses Google Workspace and Meet, and from what I've seen, Meet especially works better in Chrome. Would be nice to not have to manually copypasta URLs...
Show threadChris (so far)Feb 18, 2024
@genehack @trs FWIW Meet was the only thing that worked significantly better in Chrome … and even then it wasn’t horrible in Firefox but was enough for me to keep two browsers when I had a job in spitting distance to yours.
Show threadgenehackFeb 18, 2024
@perigrin @trs this problem may resolve itself soon, to be fair.
Show threadChris (so far)Feb 18, 2024
@genehack @trs Well yeah that too. My Google Meet usage has dropped significantly in the last year or so.
Show threadLemon 🍋Feb 19, 2024
@perigrin @genehack @trs yeah, for what it's worth, when I broke up with chrome I starting using Brave as my Work Browser. I haven't had any difficulties in using G suite with it.
Show threadgenehackFeb 19, 2024
@ahoylemon @perigrin @trs I have ideological objections to Brave.
Show threadChris (so far)Feb 19, 2024
@genehack @ahoylemon @trs additionally I also moved to Firefox because I wanted to get away from webkit as the default rendering engine because I remember when the web was becoming a browser mono-culture.
Show threadLemon 🍋Feb 19, 2024
@genehack @perigrin @trs yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh, that's super fair
Show threadLemon 🍋Feb 19, 2024
@genehack @perigrin @trs Vivaldi is cool tho, right?
Show threadgenehackFeb 19, 2024
@ahoylemon @perigrin @trs don’t know that one!
Show threadLemon 🍋Feb 19, 2024
@genehack @perigrin @trs that's my primary currently. I like it a lot. https://vivaldi.com/
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Show threadThomas SibleyFeb 19, 2024
@ahoylemon @genehack @perigrin eh... it's all Chrome and so it's all on my shitlist.
Show threadLemon 🍋Feb 20, 2024
@trs @genehack @perigrin I guess I can't see taking that hard of a stance. Like I get what you're saying about Blink creating a monoculture, but I also feel that Gecko is behind and losing ground, and I don't personally see that changing.
Show threadStephen Belcher-SaundersFeb 18, 2024

@genehack @trs I can't log in using work PIV in anything but Chrome (for whatever reason, it honestly should work fine in every browser but nobody can tell me why and I've given up trying to figure it out), one site I need to use chews up boatloads of CPU unless I use Firefox, but my default browser is Safari. Would love to direct any links known to require PIV login to Chrome, and that one site to go to Firefox, but everything else to go to my default browser (cause, y'know, that's why I *made* it the default).

Turns out there are apps you can install and set as "default browser" and their entire purpose is to redirect to the Right Thing™️ based on URL, but that becomes a whole *additional* issue in a corporate environment.

And I'm definitely a nerd but there's still a limit on things I want to write bespoke arcane scripts for.

Show threadDan LykeFeb 18, 2024
@genehack You thinking within the browser? Seems like it'd be pretty simple to make a Perl script your default browser, and have that redirect accordingly, but that'd only help for links that go through your OS (from non-browser mail, PDFs, etc...)
Show threadgenehackFeb 18, 2024
@danlyke i think more at the OS level — _something_ is controlling what browser responds when I click on a link in an email, for exmaple — I want a routing table at that level, basically.
Show threadDan LykeFeb 18, 2024

@genehack that should be super easy on Linux https://askubuntu.com/questions/805969/how-to-change-default-program-for-https-links-in-xubuntu-xfce and Windows...

On OS/X you might have to build some sort of plist to convince the OS that you're valid for the URL...

How to change default program for http(s):// links in Xubuntu/XFCE

I am using XFCE on Xubuntu. I want my default browser to be Chromium. In Settings Manager > Preferred Applications web browser is set to Chromium. In gconf-editor: /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/htt...

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Show threadNeil E. HodgesFeb 18, 2024
@genehack I think you can do that on Linux by messing with the XDG configuration.
Show threadMoved to [email protected]Feb 19, 2024
@genehack I use this to do what you say:
https://www.hammerspoon.org/Spoons/URLDispatcher.html
Hammerspoon docs: URLDispatcher