Release Notes

Web site

• New source code location: https://bitbucket.org/gmyx/browserchooser2
• New web site: http://browserchooser2.com
  • p.s. I know it does not look great, but drop me a line if you want to improve it.

New Features:

• Better support for Windows 10 and it's variants (e.g. surface)
• Many lesser known browsers added to browser detection
• MS Edge properly detected and added
• Many UI customization have been added, including:
  • change size of icons
  • change spacing of icons
  • starting position
• can specify a user agent (default is a generic Mozilla string)
• added chosen browser icons to list of add/edit browsers
• can turn off downloading of detections files and update checks
  • note: it was downloaded only on first run or if you hit the detect browser button
• command line options added to bring you to a specified settings page

Fixed Issues from previous versions:

• Issue #1: Crash on Win10 open defaults dialog - api has changed in Windows 10
• Issue #3: Does not properly detect edge / support launching edge
• Issue #4: Crash on exit. Some systems did not like the way BC2 was exiting. Cleaned up.
• Issue #5: URL de-shortening could cause wierd URLs to be returned (Facebook). Now sending a user agent string
• And more crashes.

Special Thanks for new features

• J. Scott Elblein: Found many bugs and commit some code and ui improvements.
• _pi for many UI suggestions
• Norbert T. for raising issues and creative use of the tool!
• Mitch Geller, sakima, bshamster1, johnlgalt, Paul Trevino, Mark Williams for windows 10 / edge information and testing.
• Everyone who uses this tool and the many creative ways you use it!!
• If I missed your suggestion, apologies and thanks!

The documentation has been increased. While not yet complete it is covering the main screen and the configuration screen. The add / edit screens will be added later.

Special thanks to all for testing and proving great feedback!