Greetings!
Basically, I’d like to accomplish this:
I have a WebCatalog app (Feedly) and when I click on any link within this app regardless of host, it will open to say Firefox (ideally an Edge Workspace) even though my default browser is set to something else.
I assume Switchbar would solve this issue, but the smart rule is only limited to URL, hostname, and email address.
I think having an “App origin” or at least a “hostname origin/referral URL” smart rule would achieve this. Is this possible? Thank you!
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Yes! I currently use Browser Fairy, which has the option to open links in different browsers based on which application the link was clicked in. This is the only thing keeping me back from using Switchbar instead. I use Edge just for work, and Safari just for personal use. The ‘hostnames’ rule doesn’t work for this because sometimes links have the same hostname, but I want to open in different browsers. Plus I don’t want to have to configure every single hostname I ever click on. It would be so much simpler if I could set it to open every link clicked in Messages to open in Safari, and every link clicked in Zoom to open in Edge, and so on.
We’d love to support this, but it’s challenging because the framework we use to build Switchbar doesn’t currently provide an API for that functionality. That said, we’re actively exploring options. We may be able to offer this capability specifically for WebCatalog users, since the two products are closely related.