![]() You get an invite to a Zoom meeting and you click the link. Zoom Links Open in Safari Asking Permission to Open in Zoom There may be those of you who do remember before clicking, but you still have to copy the URL, open the alternate browser and then paste it in. Steve and I are using StreamYard to broadcast the live show, and every single week I click on the StreamYard link Steven sends me, it opens in Safari, tells me it won’t work, and then I painstakingly copy the link, open a compatible browser, and paste in the link. Many of these sites say you have to use Google Chrome but that’s misleading or at the least an oversimplification because you can definitely use Chromium browsers such as Edge or Opera. Likewise, if you use Quantum-based Firefox, you’ll be denied access and told to use a Chromium browser instead. If you like Safari or DuckDuckGo, which are both Webkit browsers these services won’t let you in. If your default browser is not a Chromium browser, you’re going to have problems when you try to access one of these services. I don’t like the trend even though Chromium browsers run on the Mac. ActiveX was a proprietary capability only available in Internet Explorer on Windows leaving Mac users out in the cold. This concerns me a great deal, having lived in the bad old days when web services required ActiveX. ![]() Many web services are now designed to require you to use a Chromium browser such as Microsoft Edge, Opera, or Google Chrome. Let’s walk through the problems to be solved first and then I’ll describe how Velja solves them. I decided to go check it out and I am pleased to say that this free app solves some real problems. ![]() On a recent episode of the Mac Geek Gab, listener John sent in a suggestion to try an app called Velja from open source developer Sindre Sorhus, which was described as a browser picker. ![]()
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