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This is what I want personally.

I use different browsers for different things: let me fucking chose which browser to use.

I am currently wondering how easy it would be to build a "shim browser" that you can set as default but does not actually open the page, it only list the urls apps tried to open and lets you copy them to whichever browser you prefer.

>>afiori+(OP)
Seems like a dark pattern. Should have a "Choose this everytime" option, and you and I are both happy

>>afiori+(OP)
I'm currently experimenting with "link eye" from FDroid on Android. There's also [finicky](https://github.com/johnste/finicky) for MacOS.

>>hacker+83
Not really, because sometime default settings are weird and I would also want a "Forget all associations".

My point is broader than browsers: if an app wants to redirect me to another app I want a modal where I can select an alternative app and cancel the "redirect".

>>afiori+(OP)
You're an extremely niche use case... most people do not use multiple browsers.

>>hacker+83
It does.

>>nicksp+z4
Do you know if there is something similar for windows?

>>afiori+(OP)
I think a key difference here is that the prompt is not asking you to choose between the browsers you’ve already installed, it’s asking you if you want to launch chrome or safari, and if you don’t have chrome it’s an install button to the App Store. It’s essentially just an ad, presented like a selection UI.

Properly implemented such prompts would be great though. Someone else in the thread mentioned how location search results on mobile Safari always launch Apple Maps - it would be great to have the option to choose from whatever I have installed.

>>afiori+U4
I'm okay being prompted when I have more than one app of the same type.

I'm not okay being prompted to install an additional app when I already have one that can handle the link. This is advertisement spam and it's disingenuous to claim Google does that to give you choice.

>>tredre+Qk
I agree with this

>>afiori+(OP)
Browser Tamer[1] registers itself as the URL handler on Windows, and allows you to configure based on domain name which browser to open the link in. [it probably won't override the kind of hack in this article where Outlook is coupled directly to Edge].

[1] https://www.aloneguid.uk/projects/bt

>>dbbk+M6
If not multiple browsers many use different profiles, and then you would want to chose the appropriate profile

>>mustac+Oi
I agree, I did not consider this aspect