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its interesting that people want links to open on the default which is fine but the use case for me is that i have one mac machine and i have two desktops. one for work apps and one for personal apps. when i am on my work desktop i see slack and my work profile on chrome. i do most of my work on gsuite there and so any links i open on my work slack opens there.

then i swipe over to my desktop 2 which is all my personal apps and my personal chrome profile. i click on chrome to check my personal gmail. then i check discord and someone sent me a funny youtube video. i want that link to open on my personal chrome.

i also have a personal slack channel and i click on a URL there and it will open on my personal chrome because that was the last profile that was active.

its basically the only feature that keeps me on chrome at the moment. maybe its very niche... but its something that I've found difficult to step away from chrome for.

  • Vlad replied to this.

    onionbrowser All good we just need a community to agree what they want so we do it right the first time. And no, we will not create a setting just for this.

      phy @Vlad is this true? If it is, seems like the latest active profile is what the external url will open.

      Is the way to achieve this by not setting any profile as the “default”?

      Maybe that’s the solve for both scenarios. Let ppl choose a default to open all external links there OR let people not set a default profile so any external link opens on the last active profile.

          16 days later

          hello all -- curious if there's a desire to have external links open in the last active profile or at least work on that setting as a feature vs letting all links open in the default profile. ty!

            4 days later

            I'm using Velja, and quite happy with it.

            The only thing that is awkward is that I always need to start the primary "default sync" profile (the original one created when first run) before I start other profiles. I need to do this so that opening links using the original Orion app icon will open them in this profile. If I don't do this, there is no way to get links opened in that original profile.

            There are a few ways I can see to making this easier.

            1. Make a separate Orion app icon / executable for the primary profile, so that it's just like other profiles in this regard. There would be a "Show in Finder" context menu for this profile in Manage Profiles, just like the other profiles.
            2. Have opening links with Orion (and not a specific profile's app executable) open the primary profile, always, regardless of which profile was the first to be opened on launch.

            The current behaviour of "whichever profile was first to launch is used for opening Orion app links" seems kind of accidental. I'd prefer to have a well defined behaviour that doesn't depend on how I started up Orion.

              I just made a workaround by adding a profile launcher, like the ones Orion provides, but this one uses the command:

              exec arch -arm64 "/Applications/Orion.app/Contents/MacOS/Orion"

              (removing the -P xxxxxxx from the end)

              This seems to always launches the primary (original) profile.

              Edit: but now I'm playing with it some more, I'm not 100% sure what it's doing any more :-)

                SteveA this is what i had built out but after a few hours of using it was not ideal. for example i use discord with friends on personal channels and am a part of a few others for work. third party apps define which profile to use based on where that external URL comes from (ie discord) but i am not app-specific. I am context specific.

                chrome seems to be the only one that does "last active profile" to be the profile to open external URLs which is what im looking for. hopefully safari and/or others will follow this model

                    Please add this feature for the last active profile. When I'm hopping around my personal and work profiles, it is really annoying that links open in the wrong profile.

                      httpjames agreed but you can see others want external tabs to open on their default browser... kinda crazy how opposite some ppls workflows are lol

                          We are still waiting for community concensus and will then implement the feature as requested.

                            Vlad is there some sort of poll we can start? how will we determine consensus exactly? thanks!

                            • Vlad replied to this.

                                Safari now does profiles and allows the last active profile to open external URLs!

                                  Ok so default profile or last active? Or will we need to add a setting for this.

                                    Vlad I think a setting would be best. I would set the default option to last active as it seems to be the industry norm.

                                        I would LOVE the option to choose how external URLs are handled.
                                        a) last active profile
                                        b) default profile

                                          a month later

                                          onionbrowser I agree with this.

                                          I'd like to refine it a bit though. I'd love the option to choose how external URLs are handled.

                                          a) last active profile
                                          b) launch in a specific profile that I can choose

                                          (b) almost works today, as each profile has a launcher executable. But, it only works reliably for non-initial profiles. When handling a URL using the main "Orion" launcher, the behaviour is unpredictable, and depends which profile was first launched.

                                          One way to remedy this would be to have a launcher executable for each profile, including the initial profile. So, if install Orion, I add 2 new profiles, there are now 3 profiles. I would like to have a launcher executables for each profile which reliably handles URLs in that specific profile.

                                          A way to design this in Orion would be to save the main / initial launcher exec for "open URL in last active profile", and have one launcher executable per profile (including the initial profile) that opens URLs in that profile. This is close to what exists today, does not require a new global setting, and allows all of the requested behaviour.

                                              We added the option, will be coming in next RC to test.

                                                Orion could take advantage of the separation of main/initial launcher and launchers per profile to implement this feature request: https://orionfeedback.org/d/5563-rework-profiles-to-act-more-like-safaris-profile-management-system/12

                                                Users could use the main launcher, to have all the profiles (and their respective windows) visible under ONE app icon in the Dock, same to what Safari does. Alternatively, they can use the profile-specific launcher, to manage just the single profile under that app icon. If a different profile is launched from a profile-specific launcher, the target profile would open in the respective profile-specific launcher (not in the main/initial one).

                                                This change would make the Profiles user-experience more consistent. Also, I'm suggesting this, because I find it annoying that Orion pretends to open a new intance of itself for each profile. It's a very unusual behaviour for a macOS application. The Dock is flood with Orion profile icons, unlike Safari, where all windows of all profiles are accessible from a single app icon. The way I suggest, users could choose which profile handling suits their workflow.