BrowseRouter is a free, open-source Windows utility that automatically sends links to different web browsers based on rules you define. It's especially useful if you keep work, personal, development, or privacy-related browsing in separate browsers or browser profiles and are tired of Windows opening every link in the same place. Instead of copying a URL, opening another browser, and pasting it there, BrowseRouter makes that decision for you.
What BrowseRouter Does
BrowseRouter sits between Windows and your web browsers and decides which browser should handle a link. You set BrowseRouter as the default handler for web links, then create rules that match URLs and tell it which installed browser to launch.
Why Someone Would Use BrowseRouter
Windows normally expects you to pick one default browser. That's fine if you actually use one browser for everything. Plenty of us don't. We certainly don’t.
A work PC might have Edge signed into a Microsoft 365 account, Chrome signed into personal Google accounts, and Firefox set up with developer extensions. Clicking a link from Outlook, Teams, Slack, Discord, or another desktop application can then become mildly annoying because Windows blindly sends it to whichever browser happens to be the default.
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