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I am trying to replicate the functionality of Choosy (https://www.choosyosx.com/) under Ubuntu 16.04.
In particular, I want to have it set up so that when I click in a non-browser application on a link to github.com, pivotaltracker.com, or youtube.com that URL opens in Chrome, and all other URLs open in Firefox.
I'm fine with links in browsers staying in the same browser.
Is there any easy way to do what I'm looking for?
For this I think you should give the Scrapbook extension for Firefox a try.
You can make Chrome open when you click a mailto: link:
Access Gmail, and click an icon of the shape of overlapped double diamonds, next to the star icon in the omni-box where the URL is displayed.
If you don't see it, try reloading the page.
Source, by mulogics on Web Applications Stack Exchange
If you somehow missed the opportunity and said 'no' after the diamond question, your chance to undo that is under chrome://settings/handlers, where gmail will be listed as handler-question-blocked.
Best Answer
I liked the idea and didn't find any existing solution quickly so I've written my own dispatcher: https://github.com/int-ua/openbydomain/
The idea is to make it your default "browser".
P.S. My first use-case will be apport.