Browsers

Open the right browser at the right time

For Linux, Mac and Windows

Description

Browsers is an intuitive context menu that pops up when you press a link in an app other than a web browser.

See our website for download links and instructions
https://browsers.software

Special Skills

• Non-obtrusive design, looking more like a context menu
• Supports opening popular desktop applications directly, e.g Figma, Linear, Notion, Slack, Spotify, Telegram, Zoom.
• Supports user profiles for browsers based on Chrome and Firefox
• Supports Firefox containers (also need Open external links in a container extension installed until #1726634 is resolved)

Technical Special Skills

• Does not run in the background. Opens and closes only when you use it.
• Runs on Mac, Linux and Windows

Download

Download for your platform

• macOS

  • To stay up with latest releases, install via homebrew:

    brew install --cask browsers-software/tap/browsers
    

  • Browsers.dmg (Apple Silicon and Intel based Macs)

• Linux
  • DEB package
    • browsers_amd64.deb (x86_64)
    • browsers_arm64.deb (arm64)
    • browsers_armhf.deb (armv7l)
  • RPM package
    • browsers.x86_64.rpm (x86_64)
    • browsers.aarch64.rpm (arm64)
    • browsers.armhfp.rpm (armv7l)
  • Universal - browsers_linux.tar.gz (x86_64, arm64 and armv7l)
  • Nix - #130
  • AUR - browsers-bin and browsers-git
• Windows - Browsers_windows.zip (x86_64 and arm64)

Social

• @BrowsersTweets on Twitter

License

Browsers is free and open source! All code in this repository is dual-licensed under either:

• MIT License (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)

at your option. This means you can select the license you prefer!

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

Supporters

• JetBrains provides us a free open-source license for their IDEs