Have you been wondering how to choose the web browser that you want to use to open links? Normally, you can open links from non-web browser application using your system’s default web browser, and Windows only let you set 1 default web browser. Browser Chooser is a program that allows you to choose what web browser to open a link that you’ve clicked. However, Browser Chooser can only be lunched if the links that you’ve clicked are not from a web browser.

Browser Chooser will present you with the list of web browsers installed on your system when you click a link from a non-web browser program such as Yahoo Messenger or mIRC. It also works when you are opening a web page shortcut that was created by software installers on your start menu. Browser Chooser is able to detect 6 web browsers installed on your system; Firefox, Flock, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari, if they are installed in their default directories.

After you’ve installed Browser Chooser, you must first set Browser Chooser as the ‘default’ web browser. Click the small ‘Options’ (1) button and go to ‘Miscellaneous’ tab. Then click ‘Activate Browser Chooser (Make default browser)’ (2). You can also enable the ‘Show URL’ (3) option to make Browser Chooser display the URL that you tried to open. In the Options dialog, you can choose what web browser that will be displayed by Browser Chooser. Browser Chooser can display up to 5 web browser. Hit ‘Save’ to save the configuration.

When you’re presented with the list of web browsers by Browser Chooser, you can choose to make any URL to open automatically by your chosen web browser. There are also keyboard shortcuts, for example, if Opera is the first web browser in Browser Chooser’s list, you can press 1 or ‘O’ (first word of Opera) to make Browser Chooser open the link that you just clicked with Opera.

Browser Chooser took a few seconds to start whenever I clicked a link on my system. If you got a decent and fast system, Browser Chooser might be for you, and I don’t think Browser Chooser is suitable for slow systems.

Browser Chooser is free and open source. It is developed using VB.Net and your system need to have at least Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 installed. Browser Chooser is available for Windows XP and later only.