UrlBrowserMapper

Do you have a couple of browsers/profiles and tens of PWAs installed?

Are you tired of copy-pasting URLs from one browsers/profile to another?

Are you annoyed because a link opens in the default browsers instead of the PWA?

Fret not, ubm is here.

How does it work ?

You configure ubm (which you will set as your default browser) with ubmctl by mapping domains/ips to browsers and corresponding profiles.

Your system will open all urls in ubm which will search through the configuration file and open the url based on the configuration provided.

This is still in beta, so please be patient

Installation

• If you are on Arch , urlbrowsermapper is available in the AUR

1. Clone the repository and cd into it

git clone https://github.com/AlfredEVOL/browser-mapper.git

2. Install it using make

make install

To uninstall

make uninstall

3. To set ubm as the default browser

xdg-settings set default-web-browser UrlBrowserMapper.desktop`

4. Once installed, configure the default browser with ubmctl

ubmctl --set-default <Browser> <Profile>

To find the browser profile see Browser Profiles

Configuration

UrlBrowserMapper comes with the runner ubm and the configuration tool ubmctl. Run ubmctl -h to see all the options.

The configuration file is store in $HOME/.config/ubm/config.json. If ubmctl feels like a lot work, you can directly edit the config file.

Browser Profiles

Browser Profiles are handled differently by browsers.

For firefox and its derivatives

• Go to about:profiles to see the profiles

For Chromium and its derivatives

• Go to chrome://version and check the Profile Path section
• The last part of the Profile Path will the profile name
• Enclose profile name with single quotes when using ubmctl

For FirefoxPWA

• When using ubmctl, use firefoxpwa as the browser name
• Go to $HOME/.local/share/applications
• The desktop entries of the pwa are there named as FFPWA-{a sequence of numbers and letters}
• Open them to see which app they belong.
• Use the sequence of numbers and letters as the profile name

For Epiphany

UBM should support epiphany profiles though I haven't tested it yet

For PWAs on chromium and chromium-based browser

no support yet