Links open in the wrong Chrome profile? Here’s the fix

Q: Can links in my work email open in my work profile?

Yes, if you read it in Apple Mail. Make a rule with From... set to Mail, pick your work account under Account , and choose your work profile. Links in that account’s email then open in Work, and the rest follow your other rules.

Work links in your Work profile, personal links in Personal. Automatically.

The short answer

When you click a link outside Chrome, it opens in whichever profile you used last. That’s why a work link from Slack lands in Personal. Bouncer sits in between: set a rule once, like “Google Docs goes to Chrome Work”, and every matching link opens in that profile from then on. Links that match no rule go to the fallback browser and profile you choose.

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Morning! Standup moved to 10:30.

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Can you look over the Q4 launch plan before standup?

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Goals

Ship the new onboarding flow by November 3.
Grow weekly active teams to 2,400.
Cut setup time to under five minutes.

Timeline

Design review on October 20, beta to 50 teams on October 27, and public launch the week of November 3. Sam owns launch comms; Jamie owns the beta.

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2	Design	42,000	48,000	+14%
3	Engineering	180,500	196,000	+9%
4	Marketing	64,200	92,500	+44%
5	Sales	88,000	95,000	+8%
6	Support	31,750	34,000	+7%
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How to set it up

Install Bouncer and make it your default browser. It finds Chrome and your profiles on its own.
The next time a link opens in the wrong profile, open the Bouncer menu in the menu bar and choose Create Rule from “…”, which names the link you just opened. The rule editor opens with that link filled in. Pick the right profile and save.
Or start from an example link, like a Google Docs URL, and choose how broadly to match it.
To split work and personal by where you clicked, limit a rule to an app, a Slack or Notion workspace, a Discord server, or a Mail account.

Questions

Does this work with Edge, Brave, and Arc profiles too?

Yes. Bouncer handles profiles in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Arc, Dia, Edge, Brave, and Vivaldi. Arc calls its profiles spaces, and a rule can open a link in the space you pick. Opera works with Bouncer, but without profiles. Coming from Arc’s Air Traffic Control? See Air Traffic Control for Dia and Arc.

Can links in my work email open in my work profile?

Yes, if you read it in Apple Mail. Make a rule with From... set to Mail, pick your work account under Account, and choose your work profile. Links in that account’s email then open in Work, and the rest follow your other rules.

Can I still choose a profile by hand?

Yes. Hold Option while you click a link to get a picker with every browser and profile, each with a keyboard shortcut.

What happens to links that match no rule?

They open in your fallback browser, and in its profile if you pick one. The fallback starts as whatever your default browser was before Bouncer.

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