Slack: change browser to open links from desktop app

Question

I use two browsers on my laptop - Brave for my personal stuff (Facebook, personal email, interesting things I want to read) and Firefox for my work browsing (work email, internal webpages, work communication). Normally I like having my default browser for the computer set to Brave (personal), since most of the time I use the laptop outside of work.

I now have the Slack desktop app to keep in better communication with folks at work. But when I click on links from there, it goes to Brave where I am not logged-in to anything work related.

Is there a way to change the browser that Slack opens without changin my system wide default browser?

I'm on a Mac, Mojave, if that helps.

Answer 1

You could use Browserosaurus or Finicky or even a combination of them.

When Browserosaurus is set up as default browser, and a link is clicked, it shows a list of installed/configured browsers in which to open that link that can be selected with a one-character shortcut.

Finicky can also be setup as a default browser and it allows me to setup rules that can launch a suitable browser based upon those rules. For example: open slack.com links in Firefox, Box.com in Safari and so on.

References:

• Browserosaurus - https://github.com/will-stone/browserosaurus
• Finicky - https://github.com/johnste/finicky

Answer 2

I tried many options; nothing worked for me. Firfox is my default browser but slack opened links Opera. So i uninstalled Opera. Then slack opened links in Chrome.

Here is what i did that worked for me.

• I use Kubuntu and firefox is already the default browser (verified from firefox's settings)
• I want slack to open links in firefox
• Open System Settings -> Applications -> Default Applications
• Select Firefox as the default for Web Browser.

Now slack opens links in firefox.