Home-made Browser Picker for Linux

README.md

How to use this

Some ability to edit shell scripts is required, this is not something that is super user friendly.

1. Download browser-chooser as ~/.local/bin/browser-chooser
2. Edit the script to customize the script to suit your needs. You can figure out the name of a chrome profile by going to chrome://version in Chrome and looking at the end of the "Profile Path"
3. Download the desktop file into ~/.local/share/applications
4. Add ~/.local/bin to your PATH if it is not in there already
5. Log out and back in to update PATH for the window manager if necessary
6. Should be able to run browser-chooser from the command line
7. browser-chooser should now show up in the "start menu" to launch
8. It should show up as an option to set as your default browser in settings, select it there to use it

browser-chooser

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Install into ~/.local/bin/browser-chooser

case "$1" in
  
  *salesforce*|*basecamp* )
    CHOICE=chrome/work
    ;;

  *youtube* )
    CHOICE=chrome/personal
    ;;
   
  * )
   echo "No preset for URL, prompting user"
   CHOICE=$(zenity --title="Choose Browser for $URL" --width=800 --height=600 --timeout=300 \
      --list --column Key --column Browser --column Profile \
      "chrome/personal" "Google Chrome" "[email protected]" \
      "chrome/work" "Google Chrome" "[email protected]" \
      "chrome/guest" "Google Chrome" "Guest Profile" \
      "chrome/incognito" "Google Chrome" "Incognito" \
      "firefox/default" "Firefox" "Default" \
      "chromium/default" "Chromium" "Default"
      )
   if [[ "${CHOICE}" = "" ]] ; then
      echo User did not select a browser, exiting
      exit 0
   fi
   echo User selected ${CHOICE}
   ;;

esac

case $CHOICE in
  chrome/personal )
    google-chrome '--profile-directory=Profile 1' "$@" & disown
    ;;

  chrome/work )
    google-chrome '--profile-directory=Default' "$@" & disown
    ;;
    
  chrome/guest )
    google-chrome '--profile-directory=Guest Profile' "$@" & disown
    ;;

  chrome/incognito )
    google-chrome --incognito "$@" & disown
    ;;

  firefox )
    firefox "$@" & disown
    ;;

  chromium )
    chromium "$@" & disown
    ;;

esac

BrowserChooser.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Browser Chooser
GenericName=Browser Chooser
Comment=Choose what browser to use for specific links
Categories=Network;
Exec=browser-chooser %u
Type=Application
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/unknown;x-scheme-handler/about;text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;