How to open a URL in a specific browser / get hovered link url

Configuration Help & General Discussion
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Hi @Andreas_Hegenberg , is there a way to open URL (let's say from Brave Brower) in Velja (URL Router). Velja is my system's default browser.

What I want is that when three finger tap on a link in Brave, it should open in Velja

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This should work (adds a three finger tap that opens the hovered URL via velja):
3_finger_tap_velja.bttpreset (4.1 KB)

However requires 5.450 alpha (uploading), because I have just added the hovered_link variable

//edit: sorry there was an accidental dot in the preset, should now work

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i imported but only see these ones

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you have selected BTT Clipboard Manager in the left sidebar

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I just tried again, the preset is fine. (It's just an exported triggers, so it will import into your currently active preset).

If that doesn't work - combined with the weird screenshot issues you are seeing - it sounds like there is something fundamentally wrong, maybe some file permission issue? Can you in general create BTT triggers?

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yes, all new trigger creation working fine.

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Ah in your video you see that it was imported twice. There is the three finger tap.

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The application can’t be opened. -50

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do you have the standard velja from the mac app store installed? If it's from a different source it might have a different bundle identifier:

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looks good, maybe try whether it works when you open it from terminal via

/usr/bin/open -b com.sindresorhus.Velja 'https://someurl.com'
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works from terminal

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the surprising thing is, I had HUD setup when I 3 finger tap with ⌥. That didn't show up for some reason.

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Does a HUD show your hovered link? (possibly try disabling the open url action for testing otherwise it might run into a timing issue where velja is the hovered item before the hud is fully showing)

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is the correct three finer tap being triggered (you can check in recently used). Maybe some existing app-specific one is being triggered?

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The one in recently used is a different one than the one from my preset. If you don't need that one, delete it, it's probably defined somewhere app-specific (you can delete or disable from the recently used section)

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after removing that, it works!!

If I map it to my usual mouse single click, would this have a performance impact since it would do through this condition every time.

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Also curious how is BTT fetching the URL with just a hover :thinking: .

And what other use cases can we have with this feature? Do you ideas?