Finicky is a macOS application that allows you to set up rules that decide which browser is opened for every url. With Finicky as your default browser, you can tell it to open Bluesky or Reddit in one browser, and LinkedIn or Google Meet in another.

• Route any URL to your preferred browser with powerful matching rules
• Automatically edit URLs before opening them (e.g., force HTTPS, remove tracking parameters)
• Write rules in JavaScript or TypeScript for complete control
• Create complex routing logic with regular expressions and custom functions
• Handle multiple browsers and apps with a single configuration
• Keep your workflow organized by separating work and personal browsing

Table of Contents

• Install
• Basic configuration
• Configuration

Install

• Download from releases
• Or install via homebrew: brew install --cask finicky

Basic configuration

Here’s a short example configuration that can help you get started

// ~/.finicky.js
export default {
  defaultBrowser: "Google Chrome",
  rewrite: [
    {
      // Redirect all x.com urls to use xcancel.com
      match: "x.com/*",
      url: (url) => {
        url.host = "xcancel.com";
        return url;
      },
    },
  ],
  handlers: [
    {
      // Open any url that includes the string "workplace" in Firefox
      match: "bsky.app/*",
      browser: "Firefox",
    },
    {
      // Open google.com and *.google.com urls in Google Chrome
      match: [
        "google.com/*", // match google.com urls
        "*.google.com*", // also match google.com subdomains
      ],
      browser: "Google Chrome",
    },
  ],
};

See the configuration for all the features Finicky supports.

Configuration

Finicky has extensive support for matching, rewriting and starting browsers or other application that handle urls. See the wiki for the full configuration documentation explaining available, APIs and options as well as detail information on how to match on urls.

• The wiki has some good configuration ideas.
• Visit discussions to discuss supporting specific apps.

Other

Building Finicky from source

See Building Finicky from source

Works well with

If you are looking for something that lets you pick the browser to activate in a graphical interface, check out Browserosaurus by Will Stone, an open source browser prompter for macOS. It works really well together with Finicky!

Questions

Have any other questions or need help? Please feel free to reach out to me on Bluesky or post an issue here

License

MIT

Icon designed by @uetchy