Simple script to select browser

README.md

Steps to get this working in Ubuntu 18.04

• edit whichbrowser.sh as you see fit
  • handy way to see your Chrome profiles: cat ~/.config/google-chrome/Local\ State | jq .profile
• copy whichbrowser.sh to /usr/local/bin/whichbrowser
• copy whichbrowser.desktop to /usr/share/applications
• edit /usr/share/applications/defaults.list to add whichbrowser.desktop to the same handlers as chrome/firefox
• run sudo update-desktop-database
• use Ubuntu settings -> Details -> Default Applications, to change default web browser to whichbrowser script
• ???
• profit

whichbrowser.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=WhichBrowser
Exec=/usr/local/bin/whichbrowser %U
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Icon=google-chrome
Type=Application
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;image/webp;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;

whichbrowser.sh

#!/bin/sh

ANSWER=$(zenity --list \
--title="Browser Picker" \
--radiolist \
--column "Pick" \
--column "Answer" \
FALSE "FireFox" \
FALSE "Chrome" \
FALSE "Chrome-AltProfile" \
FALSE "Chrome-Incognito" \
FALSE "FireFox-Private")

#echo "Answer: ${ANSWER}"

case $ANSWER in
    FireFox)
	/usr/bin/firefox $@
    ;;
    Chrome)
	/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable $@
    ;;
    Chrome-AltProfile)
    	# use a different directory entirely with --user-data-dir=$HOME/<chrome-data-dir-name>
	/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --profile-directory="Profile 1" $@
    ;;
    Chrome-Incognito)
	/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --incognito $@
    ;;
    FireFox-Private)
	/usr/bin/firefox --private-window $@
    ;;
esac