4.2.0

New features:

• Ability to hide profiles, in addition to the browsers (#71). Thanks to @ilapro53 for the idea.
• Picker option "always on top" will make sure picker always shows on top of other windows (off by default).
• Added configuration option to manually invoke Picker when CAPS LOCKS is on.
• Picker includes an extra menu to the right of browser list, which at the moment has two extra options:
  • Copy link to clipboard and close picker.
  • Email link with a default email client.

Installation instructions.

4.1.2

"Close on focus loss" option was not working properly. Thanks to @rp1231.

Installation instructions.

4.1.1

Improvements

• ⌨️ Keyboard is back, but it's even better now. Picker can be controlled with keyboaard keys. Thanks to @aaronransley.
• Picker window can be optionally dismissed on focus loss, the option is off by default and can be enabled from the Picker menu. Thanks to @rp1231 in #86.

Installation instructions.

4.1.0

New features

• Introducing Pipeline debugger - a very detailed representation of how BT processes URLs that can be used to understand BT and test how rules and substitutions are applied. Accessible from the Tools menu.
• BT can write log file to "log.txt" in the same directory as config.ini. This is useful for debugging and understanding how BT processes URLs. Log file is off by default and can be enabled from the General menu.
• Lua scripting for more advanced url processing and rule matching. This is still a very new feature, therefore some bugs can be expected.

Improvements

• More URL un-shorteners supported.
• You can turn pipeline substitutions on and off without deleting substitutions. This is accessible from the "Pipeline" menu.
• Some pleaces in the UI are getting "online help" hyperlink to a relevant documentation section.

Bugs fixed

• bt.exe was hanging in the background with no picker UI shown. First seen when invoking from Slack, but could happen in other apps too. Thanks to @maddada in #93.

Installation instructions.

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4.0.3

New features:

• Browser Tamer now has AI. When you click on a link, it does predict which browser you want to open it in. This is based on what you have configued to open in the configuration window.
• Browser tamer can now predict time using sophisticated AI algorithms. We know what time it will be in 5 minutes, and we can predict it with 100% accuracy. You don't need GPU or AI chip for this to work and BT still utilizes 0% of your CPU.

Improvements:

• UX: Picker menu makes it clear which mouse button to click (thanks to @rp1231 in discussion #85).
• UX: Picker would not show in the taskbar (reported by @maddada in #88).
• UX: Picker window will not resize itself, but rather ergonimically reposition browsers and profiles depending on selection. This is because jumping window size was annoying and caused some health issues for some users with epilepsy.
• Brower Tamer will now use native Windows OS window chrome instead of custom ones. This is to make it more consistent with the rest of the system and to avoid some issues with other tools that rely on native window chrome. The chrome will also adopt to the Browser Tamer theme you have selected i.e. it will be dark or light depending on your theme prevalence.

Some screenshots of the changes:

Installation instructions.

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Bonus

Current versions of Browser Tamer in use at the moment of this release:

4.0.2

Fixed a bug where picker would not show up if it was configured to be shown on conflict or always. Thanks to @Mythrix in #40.

Installation instructions.

4.0.1

• Browsers installed via Windows Store (Firefox) are automatically detected and added to the list.
• Arc browser is fully supported.
• visual appeal: firefox/chromium autodetected browsers are now displayed with a different icon.

Installation instructions.

4.0.0

• Multiple picker hotkeys can be configured, you can even turn them all on at the same time.
• "URL tester" is now built into main configuration window and highlights matched browsers, profiles and rules. This is to avoid confusion and make it more ergonomic.
• Redesigned menu structure, moving items where they belong.
• URL Picker is completely rewritten. Browsers and profiles are now listed as a tree view, removing the need to sort flat list by some means like popularity or user-defined order.
• You can assign your own custom icon to custom defined browsers.
• You can assign your own custom icon to browser profiles or firefox containers.
• Added three new UI themes - "Darcula", "Steam" and "DUCK RED".
• UI Theme selector has two-color half-square preview icon.
• Updates to latest version of ImGui and MSVC compiler.

3.7.3

New feature

• Added support for opening links in "no container" in Firefox container mode. Thanks to @benaduggan in #69.
• LibreWolf is now recognized as a Firefox-compatible browser.

Installation instructions.

VirusTotal Scans

• bt-3.7.3.zip
• bt-3.7.3.msi

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3.7.2

Bugs fixed

• Latest version of Firefox omits ':' character from the URL when it's passed to the browser. This was causing BT to not be able to open URLs from Firefox. Thanks to @jnv in #68.
• Chrome incognito mode was not working due to a bug in the way BT was passing arguments to the browser. Thanks to @magesh-memorres in #66.

Installation instructions.