Junction Alternatives

Junction reviews and mentions

• McLovin: the cross-platform link router
  6 projects | dev.to | 15 May 2026

  On Mac I used Finicky. I switched to Linux with Omarchy almost a year ago and went looking for an equivalent. Junction only asks every time, mimi doesn't carry routing rules. The remaining path was "build your own", and I did. It worked well, with a TUI that paired nicely with Omarchy. Then I thought: this should be a built-in feature on every OS, the same way each OS has a rule for which app opens PDFs. So I decided to do McLovin the right way: a cross-platform router, configurable by anyone, with a browser picker when nothing matches and rules to send every link to the right place.

• [PT-BR] McLovin: o roteador de links multiplataforma
  6 projects | dev.to | 15 May 2026
• Link routing: the feature OSes and browsers pretend isn't there
  9 projects | dev.to | 3 May 2026

  Searched for an equivalent and the most common answer is Junction: pretty, active, well maintained. But it only asks which browser to use on every link. No rules, no auto-routing. There's a community request asking it to remember a default choice and only ask when you hold Alt, but nobody has picked it up. Junction only asks, it doesn't route.

• [PT-BR] Roteamento de links: a feature que SO e browser fingem não existir
  9 projects | dev.to | 3 May 2026
• Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2023

  For Linux users, Junction is a FOSS browser picker that works just like Choosy does on macOS. These browser pickers are more flexible than selecting just one default browser, and being able to inspect URLs before opening them is a nice security feature.

  https://github.com/sonnyp/Junction

• Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
  24 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Feb 2023

  Have you tried making a different desktop entry/shortcut for each Firefox profile and then setting a browser picker as your default browser?

  - Junction (Linux browser picker): https://github.com/sonnyp/Junction

  - Finicky (macOS browsee rule setter): https://github.com/johnste/finicky and Browserosaurus (macOS browser picker): https://github.com/will-stone/browserosaurus

  - Hurl (Windows browser picker): https://github.com/U-C-S/Hurl

• Linux Browser Selector (FOSS)
  4 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 1 Feb 2023

  Thats correct as stated in the description of the repo: 'The script is a combination of the functions from Junction and Picker on Linux -- much like Choosy on Mac, or BrowseRouter on Win.'

• A Practical Guide to fzf: Building a File Explorer
  3 projects | /r/commandline | 27 Jan 2023

  - for opening files, I'm using junction for application chooser --bind 'ctrl-o:execute(flatpak run re.sonny.Junction {+})' Or xdg-open for opening default apps

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

  There's this app that does exactly that Junction.

• Wanna choose the application to open files and urls with? Try Junction
  1 project | /r/linux | 16 Dec 2021

  Not yet https://github.com/sonnyp/Junction/issues/37 :)

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