Browser Selector
The scenario:
You are using more than one browser (like Opera and Internet Explorer). Opera for daily browsing and Internet Explorer for all Microsoft sites and e.g. for your company intranet.
Now it is really painful to copy links from mails, open the correct browser and paste it.
Browser Selector helps to avoid copy&paste url’s in one of the browsers depending on the url. Instead you can click directly on each url from all applications (Outlook, MSN Messenger, etc) or even enter the url in the start menu and it opens automatically in the correct browser!
Here is how the magic works:
Browser Selector will be set as you new default browser in Windows. This is done automatically during the setup. After that you have to configure the url and browser combinations.
Configuration:
To configure, which url will be opened in which browser, there is a config.xml file which looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<BrowserSelector>
<Rules>
<Rule Url="microsoft.com" Browser="IE" />
<Rule Url="bing.com" Browser="IE" />
<Rule Url="http://live.com" Browser="IE" MapsTo="https://live.com" />
</Rules>
<Browsers>
<Browser Name="Opera" Path="C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\opera.exe" Default="true" />
<Browser Name="IE" Path="C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" />
</Browsers>
</BrowserSelector>
There you see a Rules section. In the Url attribute you can use regular expressions as well. "microsoft.com" here means also "*.microsoft.com".
In the Browsers section you define all of your browsers and mark one as default which will be used if no rule matches.
Another feature is an automatic mapping of URLs. Use the "MapsTo" attribute to map one URL to another and then open the specified browser.
Now download the setup, install it and configure it as you like. It is well tested with Windows 7. The zip contains a readme.txt with the location of the config.xml.
If you have any questions, problems or suggestions, drop me a line.