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I am using both Firefox and Google Chrome with multiple windows (profiles).

When clicking a link in e.g. a terminal or another GUI app I'd like to choose which browser/window to load the URL in instead of running the default browser (e.g. Firefox). Does anyone know if such a program exists?

From my (limited) understanding I think it should replace the default browser and show a popup with known browsers and/or active windows where the link should be delegated to.

If found this answer, but it is only looking for existing processes and starts a default one if none is found.

You can use the browser environment variable:

export BROWSER=firefox
or
export BROWSER=/path/to/browser

Doing this changes the default browser to use from within your user session.

You could write a script that asks you what browser to open and then set it to your default browser. Then anytime you click a link it will ask you.

Just set the $1 argument so it is sent to the browser you chose, so it opens that link.

Could look something like:

#!/bin/bash
website=$1
echo "What browser do you want to use? chrome firefox "
read browsera
$browsera $website

You could make it as fancy as you want. Make it so it catches invalid arguments and all sorts of stuff. You could even make it parse the input and depending on what the site is open a predetermined browser.

You can use xdg-mime to set the default application to open URLs, without changing the default browser (xdg-settings is used to set the default browser):

Get the default application (in your case firefox):

xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http
xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https

To set google-chrome a default application use the following comand:

xdg-mime default google-chrome.desktop x-scheme-handler/http
xdg-mime default google-chrome.desktop x-scheme-handler/https