chooser.rst

chooser

select which browser to use when opening a URI

Author

Lev Givon <lev@columbia.edu>

Date

2015-01-01

Copyright

BSD

Version

0.3.3

Manual section

1

SYNOPSIS

chooser [URI]

DESCRIPTION

chooser is a graphical utility that enables one to choose which web browser to use when opening a URI. To invoke the utility when attempting to view a selected URI via the mouse popup menu provided in many desktop environments, set your default web browser to

chooser %s

CONFIGURATION

By default, chooser searches for several common web browsers. One may also specify which browsers to display in the configuration file ~/.config/chooser/chooserrc as follows::

[Browsers]
Firefox: /usr/bin/firefox
Chromium: /usr/bin/chromium-browser

SEE ALSO

chromium-browser(1), exo-open(1), firefox(1)

BUGS

chooser might not recognize certain web browsers by default.