3.7.1

Improvements

• Hopefully fixed browser being backgrounded for some users (#39).

Installation instructions.

3.7.0

New features

• Introducing URL Pipeline. BT now allows you to to define custom find and replace rules on URLs before applying rules to them. Simple strings and regular expressions are supported. Read more about this in the official docs.

Improvements

• Upgraded dependencies to latest.
• Un-shortener supports vrch.at shortlinks, by @Bluscream in #62.

Bugs fixed

• BT crashed with unhandled exception when regular expression rule was executing a regex with invalid syntax (#59). Thanks @egerlach.
• Pipe | and colon : in rule values were screwing up configuration (#59, #67). Thanks to @liny01-nbsa and @egerlach.
• Empty rule would make URL Tester hang.

Statistics

In 2023, Browser Tamer was installed by 5150 people and in December 2023 it had 561 regular users (using BT constantly for more than 7 days in a row)! This is all I can expose, as only very basic anonymous stats are reported (the fact that you have launched BT).

As you may have noticed, the number of releases went down in frequency. This is mostly due to the fact I wanted to sort out AV false-positives by contacting AV vendors one by one, and this is a long and tedious process which has nothing to do with technology.

Remember, if you like this project and wish and can to support it, you can always star ⭐ it, which helps a lot in terms of spreading the word. Optionally, if you can, you can ☕ buy me a coffee as well.

Installation instructions.

3.6.2

🐞Fixed: BT hangs waiting for browser proxy process to terminate. Thanks to @cjs1976 and @fixator10 in #51.

Installation instructions.

VirusTotal Scans

• bt-3.6.2.zip
• bt-3.6.2.msi

Please vote and comment on VirusTotal to white-list this virus-free project. Note that at this point only "bad" antiviruses detect BT as PUA, all the reputable ones are happy with it.

3.6.1

🐞Fixed: when external monitor is set as primary, picker is shown on a wrong monitor. Thanks to @ianzhuo in #48.

Installation instructions.

VirusTotal Links

• bt-3.6.1.zip
• bt-3.6.1.msi

3.6.0

New

• You can create rules based on application title and process name.
• URL picker displays extra metadata if known: process name and window title.
• Added support for Thorium Browser (#43 for @paz)

Improvements

• Picker is shown on the monitor 💻 of the source application instead of always defaulting to main monitor, thanks to @mahoromax in #42.
• Picker allows selecting first 10 browsers with a 🔢 number key, thanks to @coromd for the idea in #38!
• Theming improvements:
  • Better dark theme.
  • Theme switching was leaving some colours from the old theme.
  • Button colours on lite theme do not look ugly anymore.
• Update checks removed to avoid bugging users. You can still check from them from "Help" menu.

Bugs Fixed

• do not show hidden browser's profiles in picker (#41 for @mahoromax).
• crash on update check when no internet available (#44 for @neoOpus).

VirusTotal Analysis

• bt-3.6.0.msi
• bt-3.6.0.zip

Installation instructions.

3.5.2

Resolves an issue when Chromium browsers are not brought to foreground. Thanks to @tallen1983 in #39.

Not using ShellExecute and waiting for successful process handle seems to be making Chromium happy.

Installation instructions.

3.5.1

New feature! Office 365 link unwrapping implemented, thanks to @maluht in #36.

Please star🌟 this project. There are installation instructions available if you need them. I also have optional integration extensions for Chromium, Edge and Firefox.

3.5.0

New

• Added support for URL un-shortening.
• Tray menu has "URL Tester" shortcut.
• "buy me a coffee" link removed from the tray icon and status bar, because no one is donating. Everything irrelevant removed too, trying to be more ergonomic.

Improvements

• Slightly redesigned "URL Tester" window for better user workflow.

Bugs Fixed

• Clicking on update notification was opening home page, but it should just go to GitHub Releases page.

Please star🌟 this project. There are installation instructions available if you need them. I also have optional integration extensions for Chromium, Edge and Firefox.

Virustotal msi and zip reports can only be improved if you vote there. This software has no adware, spyware or viruses, but AV companies have to make a living.

3.4.2

Bug fixed - picker was always defaulting to "chomeless window". Thanks to @danarnold in #20.

There are installation instructions available if you need them. I also have optional integration extensions for Chromium, Edge and Firefox.

I hope you enjoy this release. Feel free to raise issues or start discussions.

If you like this project, please star it 🌟. It really helps.

And if you really like this project, please

It helps more than you can imagine! ;)

3.4.1

Bug fixed - when editing rule, you could not jump to next edit box with tab or previous with shift+tab.

There are installation instructions available if you need them. I also have optional integration extensions for Chromium, Edge and Firefox.

Some antiviruses detect BT as a trojan, virus and so on when in fact they are all false-positive. Note that nowadays only smaller vendors do! Please vote on VirusTotal as this help to improve overall detecting rating.