App Name | BrowserSelect |
App URL | https://github.com/zumoshi/BrowserSelect |
App Version Reviewed | v1.3.1 |
Test System Specs | Windows 8.1 |
Supported OSes | windows 7, windows 8.1 and windows 10 |
Support Methods | messages through github.com |
Pricing Scheme | Free and open-source (GPL v2) |
My ahk general purpose hotkey saves the current clipboard text, then sends Control c to copy the highlighted text in the active window. Then is restores the saved text to the clipboard after launching BingThing.exe with the selected text. If nothing is selected that is OK. Either a new BingThing process starts, or if it is already running, it activates and gets the focus.
Anything on the command tail BingThing copies to the Input Line ready for either search or launch. As shown in the screen shot, if you have browsers set to open urls in new tabs and they support multiple urls on the command line, such as Firefox or chrome or opera, then it will open multiple sites by just typing the domains on the same line.
BingThing saves the most recently used 128 url/search items. The file handling is still a bit rough. But at least there is some history.
(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=42852.0;attach=97210;image)-MilesAhead (July 21, 2016, 03:04 PM)
A screenshot with "FireFox". Makes me sad. It's "Firefox".-Tuxman (July 26, 2016, 07:03 AM)
Related but different, from MilesAhead (I haven't used it):-tomos (July 26, 2016, 10:29 AM)
But did you run across a key bypass?-MilesAhead (July 28, 2016, 12:34 PM)
But did you run across a key bypass?-MilesAhead (July 28, 2016, 12:34 PM)
I didn't think about that, good idea.
I'm sure you could bring it up as a suggestions in the issues (https://github.com/zumoshi/BrowserSelect/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue). The developer is pretty responsive.-Armando (July 28, 2016, 10:28 PM)
The only "issue" I have seen is that running it from the command line it seems to want you to put the http:// stuff in. Most browsers these days if you just type domain.com it brings it up.-MilesAhead (July 29, 2016, 07:04 AM)
The only "issue" I have seen is that running it from the command line it seems to want you to put the http:// stuff in. Most browsers these days if you just type domain.com it brings it up.-MilesAhead (July 29, 2016, 07:04 AM)
Good point. This could certainly be mentioned too. :)-Armando (July 29, 2016, 02:24 PM)