Brooser

brooser is a small-ish script to automatically open URLs in different browsers or browser profiles. For example, you might want to contain everything related to work in one browser, so you configure brooser to send all work-URLs to that one. (Yes, the name needs work.)

Configuration

brooser reads from a configuration file located at ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/brooser.conf (usually .config/brooser.conf).

In the file, you can define as many profiles as you want, each consisting of one command and a list of URLs - written as Python regular expressions, so remember to escape .. For example:

[work]
command = "firefox -P work %url"
urls = [
  "https://.*\\.work\\.com.*"
]

[default]
command = "firefox %url"

You also need to define the fallback command, called default.

Installation

1. Somehow install it on your system.
2. Add brooser.desktop to your system.
3. Set brooser.desktop as your default handler for HTTP, HTTPS etc.