Hurl

A windows utility that lets you choose a browser on the click of a link

Why and What?

Sometimes you might want to open a link in a browser of your choice, instead of the default one. Hurl can let you choose the browser eachtime you click a link (links outside of browser). So naturally, It acts as default browser to do that. And hurl can be powered up with a browser extension to let you open a browser tab in different browser.

• Modern Windows UI with Multiple Customization Options
• Supports adding own browser config with Launch Arguments
• Rules to automatically open a browser without prompting
• Settings application to manage all the features (coming soon!)
• Web Extension to open browser tabs in Hurl (experimental)

As a Web-Developer, Web-Surfer and someone who uses 3 browsers, Hurl is a bliss - Me probably

Installation & Usage

Download Install the latest .NET 7 Desktop Runtime and Get the Hurl_Installer from Releases. Your PC's Anti-Virus might warn that it's not secure to download or install it, You can ignore it as the executables are Un-signed. Lastly, After installing, You might need to set Hurl as the default http/https protocol handler in the Windows Settings, just like how you change the default browser.

Check out wiki for configuring - Editing UserSettings.json

Dependencies and Tools used

• Visual Studio
• Inno Setup
• .NET 7.0 , C# and WPF
• WPF UI

Building from Source

• Install Inno Setup and Visual Studio 2022 in your Windows with .NET Desktop Development workload
• After Cloning the Repo, Open the solution file ./Hurl.sln in Visual Studio
• In Debug / Release mode, Run the Hurl.BrowserSelector Project (Publish the executables to ./_Publish/* for the installer script usage)
• Install Inno Setup, Open the Utils/installer.iss script in it and Compile it to create the Installer (output in the same directory)

or Simply use the Build Script from Utils/build.ps1 to build the Application in release mode and successively build the installer.

For checking out older versions source code, Check the Tags.

Using the Extension

This is a experimental feature. Is implemented as hacky way. Use at ur own risk!

• Enable the Developer Mode for Extensions in Edge or Chrome (Not tested in Firefox)
• Choose the folder {installationDir}/Extensions/Chrome after clicking Load Unpacked Button available after enabling Developer mode

Contributing

The Project is open to Pull-Requests and Feedback. MIT License.

Credits

• Icon used is from FlatIcons
• Inspiration from Repository zumoshi/BrowserSelect and other similar projects