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Normally, when you click an https:// link in a browser, it opens in the same browser. The browser doesn't send it the OS, which means Linklever can't route it to another browser. The Linklever browser extension now solves this problem. Linklever already routes links you open from non-browser apps: your text editor, your chat client, your PDF reader. Now, it can also route a…
Some links are not meant for a browser at all. They're called custom URL schemes, and you've seen them before. A notion:// link belongs in the Notion desktop app. A steam:// link belongs in Steam. A Linklever customer pointed out that Linklever used to force these links into a browser anyway. The workaround was to add a fake "browser" entry pointing at the real app,…
A Linklever customer wrote in with a suggestion: when the browser picker appears, sometimes you don't actually want to open the URL in any browser. You just want to copy it somewhere else: a note, a chat, an input field, etc. Until now, that meant cancelling the picker, going back to where the link came from, and copying the link there. It's a small detour, but one you might take many…
Most of the time, your Linklever rules open the browser you expect, but occasionally you may want to pick a different browser. The Ask hotkey accomodates this need. Hold the hotkey when you click a link and Linklever opens the browser picker , ignoring whatever rule would normally match. Example You have a rule that sends github.com to Firefox, but just this once, you want to open a github link in…
If you use multiple accounts for the same service (work and personal Gmail, for example), you've probably run into this: you click a link and it opens in the wrong account. Or you have to keep logging in and out. Or your work and personal tabs are mixed together, making it hard to find what you need. Firefox's Multi-Account Containers feature solves this by isolating browsing contexts.…
Last week I shared about the new Ask rule type and the browser picker. Now, if the browser has more than one browser profile, you can pick which profile to open. Let me know what you think! doug@linklever.net
Sometimes you don't want to decide which browser to use until you click the link . That's what the new Ask rule type is for. Linklever already has two rule types: Url and App . These tell Linklever how to decide which browser to launch: either to look at the URL or at the name of the app that has focus when you click. Now there's a third option: Ask . When a link matches a rule with…
A couple of days ago, I shared Linklever on Hacker News . The post received valuable feedback. User mrbluecoat asked, "Does it support opening in incognito mode [...] ?" The answer until then was no, but today the answer is yes! Linklever now supports passing custom arguments to the browser. What do custom arguments have to do with incognito mode? Many browsers have a command line option to open…
With the Linklever Chrome or Firefox browser extension, you can now right-click a link and open it in any browser . When you click Open in Linklever , the browser sends the link to Linklever, which runs it through your rules and filters and opens it in your preferred browser, which could be the same browser or a different one. "But copy-paste works fine" You know that clicking a http or https link…
Linklever is what I call a browser middleware app. Middleware is software that facilitates interaction between other software. For example, if you've ever made payments with PayPal or Venmo, then you've used financial middleware to facilitate the transfer of money between your financial institution and that of a seller or personal acquaintance . Browser Middleware facilitates interaction…