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Choosy Help: Behaviour settings

This page describes the settings on Choosy's “Behaviour” tab. To find these settings open System Preferences, click on the Choosy icon and then click on the Behaviour tab.

The settings on this tab allow you to set how Choosy will behave in various situations:

  1. When one or more browsers are running
  2. When no browsers are running
  3. When an URL shortening service has been used

When one or more browsers are running

This setting defines what will happen when you click on a link and one or more of the browsers in your Choosy browser list is already running. If another browser that is not in your browser list is running the “no browsers are running” setting will be used instead.

Use best running browser
When you click on a link Choosy will pass the link on to the best running browser. “Best” here means the browser that is nearest to the top of your browser list.
Prompt to select from running browsers
When you click on a link Choosy will prompt you to select from all the browsers (from your browser list) that are running. If only one browser is running that browser will be used and no prompt will be displayed.
Prompt to select from all browsers
When you click on a link Choosy will prompt you to select from all the browsers in your browser list. The icons for running browsers will be solid, the icons for browsers that are not running will be semi-transparent.
Use my favourite browser (even if it's not already running)
When you click on a link Choosy will use the browser at the top of your browser list regardless of whether or not it is currently running.

When no browsers are running

This setting defines what will happen when you click on a link and none of the browsers in your Choosy browser list are running.

Use my favourite browser
When you click on a link Choosy will use the browser at the top of your browser list.
Prompt to select from all browsers
When you click on a link Choosy will prompt you to select from all the browsers in your browser list.

When an URL shortening service has been used

This setting defines what will happen when you click on a link to a URL shortening service like bit.ly or tinyURL.

If you turn on URL expansion it will only take effect when the browser prompt is displayed and the “Display the URL in the prompt” setting is enabled. Choosy will then ask the URL shortening service for the full length URL and replace the short URL displayed in the prompt with the full version.

Never expand URLs
Choosy will never try to expand URLs for you.
Only expand known short URLs (bit.ly, tinyurl etc.)
Choosy will only try to expand URLs for you if they are from a known URL shortening service. See below for more information about which services are supported.
Try to expand all URLs
Choosy will make a request to all URLs that it opens to see if they respond by redirecting to another website.

Supported URL shortening services

Adding more URL shortening services

You can add more URL shortening services to Choosy by creating a property list file that lists their domains.

  1. Open Property List Editor in /Applications/Utilities. It will create a new file for you.
  2. Select the only row in the table (the key column should say Root)
  3. Change the type from Dictionary to Array
  4. Press the Add Child button in the toolbar
  5. Enter the domain you want to add in the value column
  6. To add more domains, select the Root row again and repeat steps 4 and 5
  7. Save the file to ~/Library/Application Support/Choosy/short_urls.plist