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Open With for Firefox lets you easily open pages in any other browser
Open With is a neat little Firefox add-on (from a developer with the interesting domain name DarkTrojan.net).
Domain name notwithstanding, the add-on feels pretty solid (and has been tested by Mozilla). It adds a set of buttons to Firefox, which let you open the current page in any other browser that you've got installed.
In terms of UI, it's very flexible; you can add entries to the View menu, the main context menu, the main context menu for links, the tab context menu, or the tab bar (like in the screenshot).
Interestingly, on my own system, it wouldn't add Chrome to the list by default (even though I have two Chrome versions installed – Canary and the Dev build). However, it did add Microsoft Pivot, which I had completely forgotten about.
You can manually add browsers to the list, but you can't remove them -- which is a downer. It means I'm stuck with a Microsoft Pivot entry on my list, and that is enough to make me remove this add-on. That's too bad, because this is actually something I need; I often open the current page in other browsers.
Still, if you don't have an experimental browser that you never use this can be a nice solution. It would be even better, though, if the developer added a feature to allow for the removal of browsers.
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Subscribe to commentsredlambSep 7th 2010 3:01PM
this is one
Doug ASep 8th 2010 9:19AM
Couldn't you remove the add-on, rename the executable of Pivot temporarily, and then re-install the add-on so it doesn't recognize Pivot?
Just a thought...
Geoff LSep 9th 2010 8:30PM
Hello, I wrote this add-on.
Just wanted to clear up a few things:
* Yes, I have an interesting domain name.
* Yes, Chrome sometimes doesn't show up (or shows up twice). I don't know why, but it's something to do with how Chrome is listed (or not) in the Windows registry.
* Yes, preventing browsers from showing is *currently* not available from the options box. But it is possible. http://www.darktrojan.net/software/addons/openwith/ will tell you how.