Browser Chooser

Throughout the years, web browsers have struggled to come up with faster methods of delivering content and many features for an enhanced overall experience. There's not a single one to have them all, with the market flooded with products that make deciding which one to use pretty difficult. If you happen to use more than one, Browser Chooser gives you the possibility to configure a few settings and customize the way links are accessed.

All features are stored in a pretty compact window with multiple tabs in order to configure up to five web browsers. Effort on your behalf is minimum, with a few drop-down menus and several text fields that need to be filled in with preset values, images or links.

The application wants to give you the possibility to choose what browser to pop up and display links you access. When you're done with the setup, running the application again lets you choose one of the preset profiles.

Sadly, only a few web browsers are included in the default list, namely Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Choosing either of them automatically fills in specific fields such as executable path, name and image.

Luckily, you also have the possibility to build custom profiles. It's not a difficult task, but you manually have to pick and fill in all required fields. There's a dedicated URL field in order to add favorite pages to be launched automatically.

However, the application does a poor job at delivering its features in a fully functional manner. Any link you click on just opens up in your default web browser and occasionally also presenting options you managed earlier.

Each time you run the application you're prompted by the same choice window mentioned above, but regardless of your specifications and URL you insert, the browser opens up with a blank page.

To sum it up, Browser Chooser isn't really what you'd expect, not because of the features put at your disposal, but rather the lack of proper implementation. Even if you need to manually set up details for custom browsers, practicality plunges towards zero because the result is nothing more than an alternative method of launching a web browser with a blank page.

NOTE: Feel free to check out the portable version to use on the go.