Browser Choice

Why

I'm a massive browser tabs user and I did this application to separate my "personnal" tabs from my "work" tabs. The concept is quiet simple : Proposing to choose which web browser should be open when I click on a link.

How

The application wait an url as parameter :

BrowserChoice.exe https://github.com/

You can define as many web browser that you want in the configuration file :

<webBrowsers>
  <webBrowser title="Work" path="C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" />
  <webBrowser title="Personal" path="C:\Program Files (x86)\Firefox Developer Edition\firefox.exe" />
  <webBrowser title="Other" path="C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" />
</webBrowsers>

To register the application in the base registry, you just have to call :

BrowserChoice.exe --register

So the application will be available in the web browser list of default application.

The UAC can be little bit boring, so you can disable it by following the steps below :

1. Click Start and in the instance search type "Local Security Policy" and as it appears in the search result, press Enter to run it, note: UAC will prompt. So pass the UAC prompt correctly.
   (Note: You can also press Win + R and when the Run dialog appears type: secpol.msc and press Enter).
2. Now expand the Local Policies tree, and click on the Security Options.
3. On the right-side a list of security settings will appear, search for "User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode".
4. Right-click on it and choose Properties a dialog will appear.
5. In the middle of the dialog, you'll see a comboBox with the default value = "Prompt for consent for non-Windows binaries".
6. Click on that comboBox and choose "Elevate without prompting", click Apply and OK.