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Browser Extensions

Safari extension

Turn on the bundled Safari extension and use it from the toolbar or right-click menu.

Setting BrowserFairy as your default browser routes links you click in other apps, but a link you click while already in Safari normally stays in Safari. The Safari extension fixes that, and it is already on your Mac. It ships inside the BrowserFairy app, so there is nothing to download. You just turn it on.

Turn on the extension

The Safari extension comes bundled with BrowserFairy. As long as the app is installed, the extension is already available in Safari. You only need to enable it once.

  1. Open Safari.
  2. From the menu bar, choose Safari > Settings…, then click the Extensions tab.
  3. In the list on the left, find BrowserFairy Safari Extension and turn on its checkbox.
  4. Safari may ask you to confirm. The extension's description reads "Open websites in other browsers directly from Safari with BrowserFairy."
  5. Safari may also ask you to allow access to websites. Choose to allow access to all websites.

The extension requests access to every website so it can read the address of the page you are viewing, or the link you right-click, and hand it to BrowserFairy. Without that access it cannot tell which link you mean.

Where the extension came from

You will not find the BrowserFairy Safari extension in the App Store as a separate item. It is part of the BrowserFairy app bundle, which is why it appears in Safari's Extensions list as soon as the app is installed.

Send a page from the toolbar

Once the extension is on, Safari shows a BrowserFairy button in its toolbar.

  1. Open the page you want to send in another browser.
  2. Click the BrowserFairy toolbar button.
  3. The page's address is handed to the BrowserFairy app, which opens the Browser Launcher so you can pick where to open it.

The toolbar button is available only when the page has a real web address. On a blank tab or a Safari start page there is no link to send, so the button stays greyed out until you load a normal http:// or https:// page.

After you send a page from Safari, BrowserFairy opens the Browser Launcher with the link ready and a browser highlighted.

You do not have to open a page first. You can route any link directly from where it sits.

  1. Right-click (or Control-click) a link on any page.
  2. Choose Open with BrowserFairy from the menu.
  3. That link is handed to the BrowserFairy app, which opens the Browser Launcher so you can choose a browser.

This is handy when a page is full of links and you want to send just one of them to a different browser without leaving the page you are on.

How the handoff works

Both actions do the same thing. The toolbar button sends the page you are viewing, and Open with BrowserFairy sends the link you clicked. Either way, the extension passes the link to the BrowserFairy app, which then shows the Browser Launcher so you can pick a browser. The app has to be installed and running for this to work, since the extension is only the messenger.

There is no keyboard shortcut and no options screen for the extension. The two actions above are all of it.

If the action is greyed out or missing

If the BrowserFairy toolbar button is dimmed or the Open with BrowserFairy menu item does not appear, check three things: the extension is turned on in Safari > Settings… > Extensions, you are on a normal web page (not a blank or start page), and the BrowserFairy app is running in the menu bar. See troubleshooting if it still does nothing.

Other browsers

Safari is the only browser whose extension ships inside the app. For Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera you install the extension from that browser's own store. The toolbar button and right-click action work the same way once installed. See browser extensions for the full list and links.