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The right app is being triggered.-wraith808 (January 27, 2022, 01:44 AM)
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Thanks for your input and clarification AMIGO :)

My "old school-ness" leaked... this was my confusion source:

What I'd like is some way to "tell" Chrome that if I open an Outlook email link, use my work profile.  I guess that would need to be some kind of back-running utility that stays on all the time?  I don't know.  Maybe an Outlook add-in is what I need.-kunkel321 (January 26, 2022, 01:59 PM)
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When giving my 2 cents, I totally related it to the actual Outlook app/program handling "mailto:" email links.

First thing that "popped" in my head was to set mailto: handler app command to open as:

"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome_proxy.exe"  --profile-directory="Profile 1" URL

...Regular "https:" links are another use-case. Perhaps that's a job for a Chrome extension.

kunkel321:
Good thoughts, but I think  Wraith is correct.  Using mailto wouldn't work. 

I'll investigate this more.  I couldn't find anything useful in the above-mentioned AppData folder.  Come to think of it, I didn't think to check the Chrome Add-in store. 

wraith808:
A little research:

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/how-to-use-a-specific-chrome-profile-in-selenium

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11861991/how-to-access-chrome-profiling-programmatically

publicdomain:
Good thoughts, but I think  Wraith is correct.  Using mailto wouldn't work.
-kunkel321 (January 27, 2022, 08:17 AM)
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Thanks & yes, Wraith is correct indeed. As I understand more of the issue at hand, it seems the solution would be to detect mail link URL (via automation / extension), stop the loading, then change profile if needed (i.e. change work profile) to ultimately load the link using proper profile.

A little research:

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/how-to-use-a-specific-chrome-profile-in-selenium

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11861991/how-to-access-chrome-profiling-programmatically
-wraith808 (January 27, 2022, 03:32 PM)
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Good finds :Thmbsup:

Solution is doable :)

kunkel321:
I also found a couple of things.  This one
https://bitbucket.org/gmyx/browserchooser2/wiki/Home
seems promising.  Apparently you can set it as the default browser in Windows, it then directs commands as needed.  I couldn't get it to work though, then, while messing with the icon-chooser, I completely broke it.  Now it just crashes over and over.  I even killed and deleted it, and rebooted, and redownloaded it.  Still it crashes. 

This also seems interesting:
https://dospolov.com/posts/handle-chrome-profiles-with-account-surfer
it links to this $7 Windows Store app
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/account-surfer/9phvp9rjr7r7?rtc=1&activetab=pivot:overviewtab

Not sure I want to pay $7 for an app that might not even work though...

LATER....   Well I took a leap of faith and bought/installed Account Surfer.   It seems to work well.  You do indeed set it as your default browser, then it redirects as needed.  I'm not detecting any sluggishness when opening links.  There are still 15 (yes 15!) Chrome processes running in the background even though I don't have Chrome open.  ...I suppose that's to be expected from Chrome though.

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