I highly recommend this piece of Software Browser Select free open software available in GitHub.
I mainly use it because I have different Jira or Atlassian tools instances (Jira/Confluence...): one instance per customer. And each instance requires specific login that I manage to isolate via a specific Browser Profile.
I used it as well because some web-based tools were only working in an old browser and not in my default browser.
The rule : Matches | Domain | *.google.com will not work for htttps://www.google.com link.
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This fork contains some fixes/ updates https://github.com/lucasnz/BrowserSelect
Short Description
Browser Select is a utility to dynamically select the browser you want instead of just having one default for all links.
(from the GitHub Readme)
Usage
Filter configuration
Somehow I have struggled to configure this.
The Matches option does not seem to work with wildcards.
But Contains | Domain | .google.com will work.
Known Issues
It seems there is a new issue in displaying the different Chrome Profiles I use: each profile appears 4 times as a browser option. (see Screenshot above top left - Chrome (Person 2) is listed 4 times.
I have simply unticked the redundant ones.
Alternatives
Mentioned here
BrowserSelect seems not to be developed anymore. (Last release was in 2019)
There is a fork of it that is further maintained https://github.com/lucasnz/BrowserSelect (Last release Oct 2021 as of 2023-01-11)
BrowserPicker
This is my preferred alternative
As of 2025 this is well maintained.
Browser Profiles are not supported natively but (for Chrome) you can still manage them by using the command line argument e.g. --profile-directory="Profile 1"
You can identify which Profile uses which directory by looking at chrome://version output:
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I couldn't find out if it supports auto-url, means opening specific browser for specific URL patterns.
BrowserChooser2
This looks like deprecated.
I couldn't find out if it supports different browser profiles.
Big thanks and kudos to zumoshi for sharing this!
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