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Dev tools · July 26, 2020

Redirector

Choose your browser - manually or automatically

Redirector launched on July 26, 2020 with 95 votes, #439 of 4,305 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

What it does

Set Redirector as your default browser to ask which browser to open every time your click a link. Define rules to automatically choose the right browser. Open links in multiple browsers. Use it to look at the URL before opening. Your choice.

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This is a beautifully simple app that offers a clean interface for selecting what browser you want to open a link. The thing I like about this most is a person can set up rules for specific links to open in a specific browser.I love this on my desktop, but it is currently unable to be set as my default browser on my laptop, which is using the beta macOS Big Sur v11.0. Not surprising at this point, but I will still give five stars for being very useful. I can't wait till this is compatible with Big Sur. This is a beautifully simple app that offers a clean interface for selecting what browser you want to open a link. The thing I like about this most is a person can set up rules for specific…from apps.apple.com

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