BrokenURL prevents URLs from being opened in the default browser automatically

OK then I misunderstood, I somehow thought you mentioned it was also an annoyance to you. To me BrokenURL is a brilliant tool, I often install tools via Sandboxie and I hate it when they launch the browser. Not even EXE Radar could block this, but BrokenURL fixes it. But strange that it doesn't work on Win 10. Testing shouldn't take long though, you can simply try to register it as the default browser, and see if you get an error. After that you can remove it, it's a matter of a few minutes, perhaps someone else can try.

Can you perhaps check it out?

 

Go to default apps?

 

No it doesn't work, M$ has messed up big time, you can only choose a couple of pre defined apps and for other apps you are directed to the horrible Windows Store. There is no way to simply browse to a local folder. This means I can't assign BrokenURL to certain protocols. The person who messed this up should be fired and I can't believe this bug still hasn't been fixed.

 

If you click Set defaults by app, can you not find BrokenURL?

 

Thanks, I'm not sure what workaround you refer to, but I did discover there is another tool named BrowserSelect and this does seem to work on Win 10! It manages to correctly add itself to the list of default browsers. But I'm not sure if I can make it work in the Sandboxie sandboxes. But why didn't I know about this app before, I feel so dumb.

https://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Browsers/Browser-Select.shtml

If you run Win 10, you can see it yourself, M$ messed things up.

 

Good news, BrowserSelect does work with Sandboxie as well, thanks again Stapp for pointing me to the comments. I don't always read them but there is often very useful information to be found. So no BrokenURL for me, but BrowserSelect does the exact same job.

 

BrokenURL 1.3.1 Released (April 22, 2021
Website
Changelog

Spoiler: Changes 1.3.1 - 1.3.0

22 APR 2021
Version: 1.3.1
Changes:

• Fixed browser settings loading when starting without URL (reports 317-319)

21 APR 2021
Version: 1.3.0
Changes:
UI:

• Dark theme improvements
• Themed "updates available" hyperlink
• Autoselect System/Dark theme for Windows 10
• Left/Right keys now nagivate between subbuttons (private/new window)
• Added hamburger menu button
• Added tooltips in main window (can be turned off)
• Like project on brokenevent website through About window
• Scroll if there is too much of browsers to show

Fixes:

• Update frequency setting is no more ignored when no updates found
• Fixed occasional crash on saving settings
• Improved error handling on detection of default browser on Win10 (report 193)
• "Save choice" checkbox now works once (is cleared when showing save preset dialog)
• Fixed ignore of filters for non-working browsers
• Fixed filter creation when no caller process exist
• Fixed icons acquisition (recent version of Waterfox)

Features:

• Add custom browser manually
• Browsers profiles and/or command-line settings
• Block filters (check "Save choice" and then click outside of the window)
• "Paste URL from clipboard" command-line command
• Edit URL before opening - double-click on URL or via context menu command
• Filters now can select URL by query string and resource path parts of the URL
• Preventing unfocus/hide for 0.5 seconds from start to avoid accidental close
• Chromium-based Edge support
• Better Firefox settings to support all of the builds like Developer Edition
• Hold Shift while starting the app to suppress filters (same as Alt)
• "Copy to clipboard" button to selection list. May be turned off and may be used for filters.

 

I wonder if it will now finally run correctly on Win 10. Because I'm having problems with BrowserSelect, all of a sudden, VirusTotal Uploader can't launch the browser anymore.