Clean UI & file icon to match Windows 11

[nitin2953]

Simple UI with

• No borders
• No Close button (Esc to close or/and click outside to close)
• center url in place of title bar
• rounded border
• start menu shortcut to open settings
• proper/separate icons for beta, dev, canary versions of browser
• Separate file icon for *.url files (like: 🌐)

Inspiration:

[U-C-S]

@nitin2953 I took inspiration from your ideas and Added them into my application Hurl (which is similar to BrowserSelect).

It currently looks like this..... (Still in dev)

Repo: https://github.com/U-C-S/Hurl
(Forgive me if it feels bit promotional)

[nitin2953]

WOW This is looking So Much Good

But is this only a mockup OR working app
I'm currently on Windows 10 & this is looking like the image in Readme.me

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Another Feature: QR Code button beside copy button

[U-C-S]

Thanks. it's a working app. It uses WPFUI and native Win32 API for rounded corners. I'll be releasing a alpha soon.

(I'm bit new to the language and domain, any feedback is helpful)

[morvy]

compared to BrowserSelect, Hurl is much slower (5800H, lots of RAM free, NVMe drive). But I'm giving it a try because BrowserSelect opens in background when opening links from VS Code

[U-C-S]

(btw i got the same specs, r7 5800h with my legion 5 pro)

Yeh, Hurl is kind of slower, since the "modern UI" takes a toll and uses .NET 6. Might change in future when Microsoft updates wpf with trimming support and AoT stuff and also make WinAppSdk cooler like UWP kind of is... Atleast for now its actually fast enough for comfortable.

[morvy]

If it can stay in tray and be quicker that way .. I don't mind. What I found missing and a deal breaker for me is that it's unable to remember domains like BrowserSelect (small button below browser icon "always"). Plus on my system, it's not that pretty

Win11 Pro 22621.521

[U-C-S]

ah...Issues with wpfui library that Hurl uses, is fixed in the main branch now.

Though take any further discussions to Hurl Repo. Its feels bit out of place discussing here 😅.

[zumoshi]

@U-C-S Great job on the alternative you've created. Don't worry about being out of place here. I've not had enough time to work on this project for a while now. I'm happy to see others pick up where I've left.
This tool is rather niche, and I've created it only because I failed to find anything that worked at the time.

I've added a link to your repo on the readme so people can find it easier.

@nitin2953 If you don't mind I'm going to revert the title and keep the issue open in case I ever released a new version or someone created a pull request for this feature. It's great to have competition and multiple choices of software but I wouldn't call Hurl continuation of BrowserSelect. They're not a fork, but started from scratch and have a different tech stack.