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FinickyBased on our record, Finicky seems to be a lot more popular than Walker. While we know about 25 links to Finicky, we've tracked only 2 mentions of Walker. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
There is an open source web browser proxy thing called finicky [0]. I use at work that lets me redirect urls clicked in other apps like slack to specific browers (firefox / chrome) or even specific chrome profiles. It'll also allow you to rewrite the urls. [0] https://github.com/johnste/finicky. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
On Mac I used Finicky. I switched to Linux with Omarchy almost a year ago and went looking for an equivalent. Junction only asks every time, mimi doesn't carry routing rules. The remaining path was "build your own", and I did. It worked well, with a TUI that paired nicely with Omarchy. Then I thought: this should be a built-in feature on every OS, the same way each OS has a rule for which app opens PDFs. So I... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago
On Mac I used Finicky for this. For anyone who never saw it: it lets you write rules that decide which browser opens each link. You set Finicky as the system's default browser, and it applies your rules to every link clicked in any app, picking the right one. Rules are short scripts in JavaScript, simple or as elaborate as you need. It can even rewrite the URL before opening it: force HTTPS, strip tracking... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago
In addition to making the link look shady, it adds considerable lag to opening the link. I'm using Finicky[1] on Mac to rewrite the URL by extracting the original URL from the query params[2]. 1: https://github.com/johnste/finicky 2: https://github.com/fphilipe/dotfiles/blob/31e3d18fe5f51b2fd86cb7f1762453c1c4779ef9/finicky.js#L4-L8. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago
Just curious, did you explore finicky(https://github.com/johnste/finicky)? - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
If no rule matches, a Walker-style picker shows the detected browsers and lets you pick one. Two frontends share one Rust core: a CLI for automation and keybinds, and a GUI (mclovin settings) for mouse and keyboard. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago
It's basically Arch and a fully customized ready to go Hyprland setup (which is a fully customizable/programmable DE running on top of Wayland). I would recommend just installing Arch, Hyprland and customize what you need yourselves so you aren't stuck using DHHs preferences. Bonus: Along the way you will also figure out how he did it, like creating your very own application launcher with some scripting and... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago
Choosy - Choosy opens links in different browsers as specified, according to rules, set by the user.
Raycast - Fastest way to control Jira, GitHub and other web apps
Browser Tamer - Makes correct URLs open in browsers you want instead of the system defaults.
Fluent Search - With Fluent Search you can search for running apps, browser tabs, in-app content, files and more. You can use fluent search to use the computer without a mouse.
Hurl - Choose a Browser - A windows utility that lets you choose the browser on the click of a link
Alfred - Alfred is an award-winning app for macOS which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac.
