Braus

You have a work profile, a personal profile, and one you would rather not discuss. You click a link to sign in to Slack, and it opens wherever.

Braus sits in as your default browser, and when you click a link it asks where it should go. You choose, it opens, and Braus goes quiet again.

What it does

• Asks before it opens Click a link in any app and Braus shows your profiles. Pick one, and the link opens there.
• Remembers your last pick The profile you used last is already selected, so most of the time the answer is the same as before.
• Knows your browsers Supports Firefox (including Nightly, Beta and Developer Edition), Chrome, Edge, Brave and Opera, plus Safari on the Mac.
• Copies the link instead Not ready to open it? Copy the address and paste it wherever it belongs.

See it

Once configured, Braus hangs around in your status bar or system tray. Normal browsing is not affected. Only when you click a link from another app, a small window for your favourite profiles pops up. The one you used last is already selected, and if you would rather not open the link at all, there is a button to copy it.

We can't stop other platforms from forcing magic sign-in links onto us. But we can control that they open in the right profile. I use a lot of Firefox profiles, and every time I needed to sign in (to Slack or Figma or similar tools), they went to the wrong one. So, I wrote a fix. Then it got out of hand and added Chrome and Safari, and Windows support, and automatic updates, and now you can use this app too.

Get Braus

Free, for Mac and Windows. Download it, make it your default browser, and click away!

Braus is free. No subscription, no ads, no tracking. The source is open, so you can check what it does with your links, or build it yourself.

If it saves you some clicks and you feel generous, there is a link to donate. That is the whole business model.