17 years ago today: I released the first Choosy public beta.
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Choosy
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A smarter default browser for macOS
@Gaita I would love to, but so far I haven’t found a safe way of doing it. There don’t appear to be any official APIs to list profiles, or select a profile when opening a link. I’ve opened a feature request with Apple 🤞
Another little bug fix release to fix a prompt colour scheme issue on Sequoia: https://choosy.app/releases/2.5.2
@jeremu I like it! I’m working on a new rule editor for the next major release, which will make it easier to incorporate this kind of thing.
Choosy 2.5.1 is here: a little bug fix release for some things I missed in 2.5, mostly fixing issues with the new prompt when the macOS "keyboard navigation" setting is enabled.
@chrispassas Oh, one change that does involve file system access: I added code to resolve absolute browser paths by following symlinks to fix a bug where Choosy lost track of which browsers were running in some situations. Any chance you have browsers stored in iCloud Drive with symlinks to them?
@chrispassas It shouldn’t 🤔
I’ve not added any iCloud features, or been prompted to grant such permissions on any of the systems I tested the new release on. Most of the changes in this release were in the UI layer. What was the context where you were prompted?
Choosy 2.5 is out now! Lots of improvements to the browser prompt in this release, including light and dark modes and the option for a Liquid Glass background.
The Tahoe update is taking a little longer than I would have liked, but it's coming along nicely.
I don't love all the uses of Liquid Glass in the new Apple OSes, but I think it's working out pretty well as one of the background options for Choosy's updated browser prompt.
@jeremu Interesting idea, do you have a specific example in mind? It might be possible to use a regular expression rule for simple cases, but that’s not the most user friendly feature.
I am still maintaining Choosy, and I have a fairly big UI update that should be ready in the next few weeks.