RainmeterFreeze vs BrowserSelect

RainmeterFreeze

❄ Saves up CPU by freezing Rainmeter when it's not visible (by ascpixi)

BrowserSelect

Browser Select is a utility to dynamically select the browser you want instead of just having one default for all links. (by zumoshi)

Windows Browser Select Customization Utility

Source Code

Suggest alternative

Edit details

Our great sponsors

WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS

InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale

SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews

Our great sponsors

RainmeterFreeze		BrowserSelect
	Project
2	Mentions	2
21	Stars	286
-	Growth	-
1.8	Activity	0.0
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
C#	Language	C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

RainmeterFreeze

Posts with mentions or reviews of RainmeterFreeze. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

i've made a little program that freezes Rainmeter when it's not visible to save CPU/battery power!
1 project | /r/Rainmeter | 27 Apr 2022
i've made a little program that freezes Rainmeter when it's not visible, saving CPU/battery power!
1 project | /r/Rainmeter | 27 Apr 2022

BrowserSelect

Posts with mentions or reviews of BrowserSelect. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-24.

Suggestions for "Browser Selector" ?
3 projects | /r/emacs | 24 Dec 2021

For anyone who stumbled in here looking for something for Windows, I have been using BrowserSelect for a couple years and it works perfectly.
Looking for add-on to forward pages in another browser
1 project | /r/FirefoxAddons | 17 Sep 2021

Fairy might work OK in MAC, but its FOSS alternative for windows https://github.com/zumoshi/BrowserSelect does not work within the browser. It more works like default browser, letting you choose in which browser to open the links AND default for certain domains.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing RainmeterFreeze and BrowserSelect you can also consider the following projects:

JaxCore - A beautiful set of tools and widgets to spice up your desktop.

emacs-application-framework - EAF, an extensible framework that revolutionizes the graphical capabilities of Emacs

ValliStart - A start menu to replace the un-customizable one that you have right now.

Myrtille - A native HTML4 / HTML5 Remote Desktop Protocol and SSH client

WebNowPlaying - A NowPlaying like plugin for rainmeter built for getting music info from websites

CefSharp - .NET (WPF and Windows Forms) bindings for the Chromium Embedded Framework

lively - Free and open-source software that allows users to set animated desktop wallpapers and screensavers powered by WinUI 3.

RainbowTaskbar - Powerful, customizable Windows 10/11 taskbar effects.

Stack - Tiling window manager for Windows with XAML-based layouts

Neutronium - 🚀 Build .NET desktop applications using HTML, CSS and javascript.

WebNowPlaying-Rainmeter - Rainmeter Adapter for WebNowPlaying

Blazor.Diagrams - A fully customizable and extensible all-purpose diagrams library for Blazor [Moved to: https://github.com/Blazor-Diagrams/Blazor.Diagrams]