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MultiBrowser allows you to take control of the many browsers that you may have installed on your Mac. Whenever you click on a link in just about any application (e.g. Mail, Preview, etc), MultiBrowser will appear and allow you to choose which browser to open that link in. MultiBrowser's browser selection window is highly configurable allowing you to change its colors, size, and more so that you can decide exactly what it should look like. MultiBrowser uses built-in Mac OS X services so that it does not even have to be running until you actually click a link - this means that it will not waste
What's New
Version 1.1.1:
- Renamed all references of (the incorrectly named) "combo-box" to (the now correctly named) "popup menu"
- Simplified and improved "Preview Appearance" code
- When the browser selection window appears, it will be positioned so that the mouse will now be over the initially selected browser (unless you have the location always set to centered)
- Updated pie chart code to work properly with updated Google Chart API
- Fixed a rare problem that could cause the MultiBrowser app to fail to launch on some 10.5 systems
- Updated Help Book
Version 1.1.1:
- Renamed all references of (the incorrectly named) "combo-box" to (the now correctly named) "popup menu"
- Simplified and improved "Preview Appearance" code
- When the browser selection window appears, it will be positioned so that the mouse will now be over the initially selected browser (unless you have the location always set to centered) more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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MultiBrowser allows you to take control of the many browsers that you may have installed on your Mac. Whenever you click on a link in just about any application (e.g. Mail, Preview, etc), MultiBrowser will appear and allow you to choose which browser to open that link in. MultiBrowser's browser selection window is highly configurable allowing you to change its colors, size, and more so that you can decide exactly what it should look like. MultiBrowser uses built-in Mac OS X services so that it does not even have to be running until you actually click a link - this means that it will not waste any of your Mac's resources. MultiBrowser also has additional options for changing how browsers are launched, handling multiple monitors, and more. It has optional usage tracking (which will not be shared with anyone except yourself) to let know how many times you use each browser.
Features:
Features:
- Take control of the many browsers that you may have installed on your Mac
- Can launch links from just about any application
- Uses no resources when idle
- Works with just about any browser
- Highly configurable appearance lets you choose colors, size, and more
- Options for changing how browsers are launched
- Multi-Monitor support
- Optional usage tracking
- Automatically checks for the newest version
- It's Free!
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Sw_tester reviewed on 11 Aug 2011
A bonus feature is if I accidentally click a link I can click cancel and not open the link.
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Steven Goodheart reviewed on 18 Feb 2011
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Bikerfunjoe reviewed on 22 Nov 2010
After installing the MultiBrowser PrefPane and setting MultiBrowser as your default browser, whenever you click on a link in an e-mail or any other document, MultiBrowser pops up a list of the browsers installed on your Mac and lets you choose which one to open the link with. It couldn't be easier. Additionally, the MultiBrowser popup is very attractive and completely configurable. It reminds me of Growl notifications except the list pops up at the mouse pointer.
Kudos for the developers. By making this free, they've done a great service to the Mac community.
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MB keeps track and launches applications by using their "bundle id". A nice benefit of this is that if you move one of your browsers to a different location on your hard drive, MB will still be able to launch it. Anyways, the problem is that Firefox 3 and Firefox 4 have the same bundle id because they are both Firefox; that bundle id is "com.mozilla.firefox". So, if you have two programs with the same bundle id, then OS X will choose one when MB tries to launch it (or get information about it); I'm not sure how OS X decides which one to use though.
I realize now that MB would be quite useful for somebody who has more than one version of the same browser, so I'll try to figure out a way around this issue for the next update. I'm going to be fairly busy for a while and won't have much time to work on MB, so in the meantime, you can try a work-around by changing the bundle id of one of the Firefoxes. The bundle id is defined in the info.plist file in the application bundle. You can find a lot of information about info.plist from this website (and the key you want is "CFBundleIdentifier") http://www.mactipsandtricks.com/articles/Wiley_HT_appBundles.lasso
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Jazzyguy reviewed on 06 Sep 2010
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Yaba_daba_do reviewed on 05 Sep 2010
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To be able to right-click the desktop to open the list of browsers would require a contextual menu plugin. Snow Leopard handles these differently than Leopard, so I'd have to make two different versions. MultiBrowser is also designed to open a link, not to simply launch browsers, so I'd have to change that as well. So, I don't think I'll be adding this feature - it would be a lot of work and its not really part of my "goal" with MultiBrowser.
What exactly is a mail browser? Do you mean mail clients (e.g. Mail.app, Thunderbird)? You can add any program to MultiBrowser (even ones that are not actually browsers); they will probably just open and do nothing instead of opening the link you clicked on.
As for not being limited to links, it sounds like you want a replacement for the Dock. Something where you can right click and get a list of applications to launch. There are many apps that try to replace or supplement the Dock; I suggest that you look at some of those. This feature is outside the scope of what I want to do with MultiBrowser.
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macrex18 rated on 13 Mar 2012
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Falstaffa rated on 15 Oct 2011
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Fontgoddess rated on 21 Jun 2011
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craigfin74 rated on 18 Dec 2010
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Rsimpso1 rated on 04 Dec 2010