Objektiv is a utility that lets you switch your
default browser easily. You might find it useful if you're a web
designer or use multiple browsers in your workflow.
The app works with Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) onwards.
You can either download Objektiv or install it via homebrew: brew install objektiv
- A status-bar icon for quick access
- An optional global hotkey triggers an overlay window for even quicker switching
- Pressing Option (⌥) in the status menu lets you hide browsers that are incorrectly detected
Due to the recent changes in MacOS 10.10+, applications are now incapable of switching the user's default browser silently without a confirmation message. Please set Objektiv as your default browser in your System Prefences > General and everything will work as normal.
Objektiv requires CocoaPods in order to be built.
After cloning this repository, run:
$ pod install
in order to grab dependencies. Also, make sure that you open
Objektiv.xcworkspace, not Objektiv.xcodeproj.
Objektiv was built by the former web development company nth loop to solve a problem they were facing and to learn all about developing Mac Apps. It might be ridiculously over-engineered for such a simple utility.
Copyright 2012, nth loop. Objektiv is available under the MIT License.
- Anks, original developer
- xrivatsan, original developer
- Vorror, major bugfixes and making the tool work with present-day macOS
- ZeroKit by eczarny (MIT Licensed, portions of source used)
- MASShortcut by Vadim Shpakovski (BSD Licensed)
- CDEvents by Aron Cedercrantz (MIT Licensed)
- Sparkle by Andy Matuschak
- NSWorkspace+Utils from Mozilla's Camino project (MPL)