![]() ![]() However, Choosy’s developer has providedĪ nifty Web browser bookmarklet that, when selected, lets you open the current Web page in a different browser of your choosing. Unfortunately, as with Highbrow, you can’t manually add programs to this list (although this feature isĪs I mentioned in my review of Highbrow, links clicked within a browser open in that browser Highbrow and Choosy intercept only those links you open from outside of Web browsers-for example, in an e-mail message, a word-processing document, or an HTML file you’re editing. By dragging individual programs up and down in the list, you rank those programs from most to least preferred you can also force Choosy to ignore a program completely by unchecking the box next to the program’s name. Choosy’s Browsers screen lists all programs that claim to handle Web URLs. Another feature unique to Choosy is the capability to rank your browsers. You may be wondering what I meant by the “best” browser in the previous paragraph. Although I miss Highbrow’s most-recently-used option, Choosy’s alternatives are varied and useful. If one or more Web browsers are already running, the options include using the “best” currently running browser asking you to choose from among currently running browsers launching your favorite browser or asking you to choose from among all browsers. For example, if no browsers are running when you click on a Web link, Choosy can either launch your favorite browser or ask you to choose a browser. On the other hand, Choosy gives you several alternate behaviors of its own, and you can choose different options depending on whether any browsers are already running. On the one hand, Choosy is missing Highbrow’s options to automatically pick the most-recently-used browser or to simply use your preferred browser. You can also change the size of the icons-smaller icons are more difficult to differentiate, but the smaller layout similarly reduces how far you have to move the cursor.)īut that’s where the similarities between Highbrow and Choosy end. The latter option requires less mousing, as every icon is the same distance from your cursor. The default is a horizontal line of icons that appears directly under your mouse cursor the other choice is a circle of icons centered on your mouse. Subscribers get access to an exclusive podcast, members-only stories, and a special community.(You get two options for the appearance of Choosy’s browser picker. If you appreciate articles like this one, support us by becoming a Six Colors subscriber. Whichever app you choose, it’s good to know that on the Mac, having a default browser doesn’t have to be a either/or situation. Bumpr is cheaper, does less (but also does email), but is more attractive. (For example, forwarding all Google Apps URLs to Chrome rather than Safari.) Perhaps that will be a future addition, but in the meantime you can get more power by using Choosy, a $10 app that provides much the same functionality as Bumpr, but with a bunch of extra settings to give you even more control over what happens when you click a link.Ĭhoosy does more, but also costs more. I do admit that I wish it did more, specifically matching specific URL patterns and automatically moving those on to specific browsers. If you’ve ever been frustrated by links always opening in one browser or mail client when you don’t always want that behavior, Bumpr is the solution to the problem. (And the same works for mail links, of course.) ![]() When I click a web link in my Twitter app or my email client, I can send it off to Safari or Chrome or wherever I want with just one more click. Yes, it gets in the way-that’s its job-but it does it in an attractive way, and when you click, it’s gone as if it had never been there. (Optionally, you have set Bumpr to prompt you only when you have the shift key held down when you click.)īy description alone this could seem awful, but Vinh and Ostler have designed an interface that’s attractive and simple. Every time you click a link outside of a web browser, a floating window appears, giving you the option of launching that link in any browser you specify. Bumpr is a small utility that takes over as your Mac’s default browser, or email client, or both. This is where Bumpr, a new $4 app from Khoi Vinh and Scott Ostler, comes in. The same is true for email programs, with some of the same issues-you might have work email in Apple Mail and personal mail in MailPlane, for example. MacOS apps expect you to have a single, default browser-and that’s the browser that all links you click on, across all apps (other than browsers themselves), are sent to. Maybe you’re a web designer who needs to test links in multiple browsers, maybe it’s as simple as keeping two separate accounts logged in, or maybe you keep a browser around just to run sites that require Flash. Sometimes you need more than one web browser. Note: This story has not been updated for several years. ![]()
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