Firefox Deflector

This utility will allow you to open external links using any currently running firefox instance. By default firefox will open links by using the default profile, even if a window using a different profile is running.

Tested on Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS.

This is a Linux only utility.

Installation

Terminal One Liners for download and installation.

With wget

wget -qO- "https://github.com/murar8/firefox-deflector/archive/main.tar.gz" | tar xz --transform 's/firefox-deflector-main/.firefox-deflector/' -C $HOME -- && $HOME/.firefox-deflector/install.sh

With git

git clone git@github.com:murar8/firefox-deflector.git $HOME/.firefox-deflector && $HOME/.firefox-deflector/install.sh

Setting Firefox Deflector as your default browser

Gnome

From the Terminal

xdg-settings set default-web-browser firefox-deflector.desktop

From the UI

Settings -> Default Apps -> Web -> Firefox Deflector

Uninstallation

$HOME/.firefox-deflector/uninstall.sh

License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.