macOS default browser · free and open source

Every link on the right track.

Wye becomes your default browser and sends each link to the right browser and profile. A rule decides; when none does, a keyboard popup asks. You see it for a second, then the link is open.

brew install --cask vmaerten/tap/browser-picker

macOS 15 or later · Chrome, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Arc, Safari, Firefox

One link in, one track out

01

A link arrives

From Slack, Mail, Notion or the terminal. Wye is the default browser, so every http and https link comes to it first.

02

A rule decides

One line per rule in a text file: a glob, then a profile. The first match wins, and the link opens straight in that profile.

03

Or you pick

No rule? A popup lists your profiles and browsers. Press 1 to 9, hold ⇧ for a private window, ⌥ to stay where you are.

Rules you can read

No settings screen to click through. Rules live in ~/.config/browser-picker/rules.conf, are read again for every link, and the app window shows which one a URL hits.

# Clean links before routing them
@strip-trackers
@unwrap-redirects

# glob                  target
github.com/acme/*       Pro
*.atlassian.net/*       Pro
linear.app/*            Pro
figma.com/*             Pro
youtube.com/*           Perso
*.apple.com/*           Safari

Tester une URL

https://github.com/acme/app?utm_source=slack
Réécritehttps://github.com/acme/app
Règleligne 6 · github.com/acme/*
OuvreChrome · Pro

Règles

2@strip-trackers
3@unwrap-redirects
6github.com/acme/*Pro
7*.atlassian.net/*Pro
8linear.app/*Pro
9figma.com/*Pro
10youtube.com/*Perso
11*.apple.com/*Safari

Small, and it stays out of the way

Every Chromium profile

Reads your profiles from Chrome, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Chromium and Helium, in their own order, with their colours and pictures.

Keyboard first

The popup takes the keyboard without stealing focus from the app you clicked in. Escape or a click outside opens nothing.

Cleaner links

Strip utm_* and friends, unwrap Outlook and Google redirects, upgrade to HTTPS. Each one is a line you turn on.

Never loses a link

If a browser fails to open, the link falls back to Chrome, then Safari. Every link and choice is written to a log.

A window that checks

Open Wye by hand to see whether it is the default browser, whether it can read your profiles, and which rules are broken.

Force the question

Hold fn while clicking a link to skip the rules and choose by hand, just this once.

Set up in three steps

  1. Install with Homebrew

    brew install --cask vmaerten/tap/browser-picker

  2. Make it the default browser

    System Settings › Desktop & Dock › Default web browser › Wye

  3. Write your first rule

    mkdir -p ~/.config/browser-picker && echo 'github.com/acme/* Pro' >> ~/.config/browser-picker/rules.conf