BroChoos Picker 1.0.0

Early version. Found issues on first real use: a console window opens with the picker, and first-run "Skip" leaves no way to open the link. Version 1.0.1 fixes these and redesigns profiles. Use 1.0.1 when it is out.

Initial public release.

Added

• Browser picker window that opens next to the mouse pointer when you click a link, with one tile per browser, and one tile per profile for Chrome, Edge and Brave (up to nine tiles).
• Detection of Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome and Brave (stable and preview channels) and Mozilla Firefox (stable, Developer Edition, Nightly).
• Chromium profile discovery for Edge, Chrome and Brave; links open in the chosen profile. The last-used profile is listed first.
• Firefox support: links open in the install's default profile.
• Manual add of a portable or custom browser by choosing its executable; drives are never scanned.
• First-run consent: no browser scan until you choose "Find browsers" (or add one by hand, or skip).
• Keyboard control: 1–9, Left/Right arrows (Up/Down in vertical layout), Enter, Esc, F (open with the system default), Ctrl+C (copy link), Ctrl+H (skip history for the next link), Ctrl+Backspace twice within 4 seconds (clear history), F1 (shortcut list).
• Cancel copies the link to the clipboard; clicking outside the window closes it.
• Single instance: links clicked while the picker is open are forwarded to it over a local named pipe.
• The picker holds back while a fullscreen game or presentation runs (up to 30 seconds).
• Per-user registration as a Windows browser for http, https and .url (--register, --unregister, --verify-defaults, --open-default-apps). UserChoice is never written.
• Per-user installer BroChoos-Picker-Setup-1.0.0-x64.exe (no admin rights) that registers on install and unregisters on uninstall.
• Portable zip BroChoos-Picker-1.0.0-x64-portable.zip with a .portable marker, so settings stay in BroChoosConfig next to BroChoos.exe. --portable-data <path> picks another data folder.
• Both builds are self-contained: the .NET runtime is included.
• SHA256SUMS.txt and GitHub build provenance attestations for both release files.
• Settings backups: the newest 10 per file are kept; backups older than 30 days are pruned the next time that settings file is saved.
• Settings window (--settings).
• Safe mode (--safe-mode) with recovery actions: diagnostics export, restore backup, reset defaults, open data folder, registration repair, synthetic link probe, repair settings.
• Local activation history that stores only the main domain of each link.
• Local problem log without URLs, paths or user names; 14-day retention and 10 MB rotation.
• Icon disk cache so tiles appear at once.
• User interface in English, Russian and Armenian.
• Windows high-contrast support and per-monitor DPI awareness.

Downloads

• BroChoos-Picker-Setup-1.0.0-x64.exe: per-user installer. No administrator rights needed.
• BroChoos-Picker-1.0.0-x64-portable.zip: portable build. Settings stay in the BroChoosConfig folder next to BroChoos.exe.

Both include the .NET runtime, so nothing else needs to be installed.

Verify the download

These files are not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may warn the first time you run them. You can check them first:

• SHA-256: compare Get-FileHash .\<file> -Algorithm SHA256 with SHA256SUMS.txt.
• Build provenance: gh attestation verify .\<file> --repo HaYkMnE/BroChoos-Picker