How to open links in different Chrome profiles in OSX

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Are you annoyed by work stuff openning in your personal Chrome? Follow these steps and see how your productivity skyrockets 🚀

• Install Finicky: brew install --cask finicky.
• Create a new Finicky config.

• In Chrome, visit chrome://version and find your the name of the profile you want to use.

• Edit the new config ~/.finicky.js and use something similar to:

const personal = {
  name: "Google Chrome",
  profile: "Profile 3",
};

const work = {
  name: "Google Chrome",
  profile: "Profile 2",
};

const slackApp = "/Applications/Slack.app";

module.exports = {
  defaultBrowser: "Google Chrome",
  options: {
      hideIcon: false,
      checkForUpdate: true,
  },
  handlers: [
      // Links opened from Slack
      {
          match: ({
              opener
          }) => ["Slack"].includes(opener.name),
          browser: work,
      },
      // Matches links containing the name of my company
      {
          match: /myCompany/,
          browser: work,
      },
      // Social media
      {
          match: /facebook|twitter|instagram/,
          browser: personal,
      },
      // Slack deeplinks
      {
          match: ({
              url
          }) => url.protocol === "slack",
          browser: slackApp,
      },
      // Open Slack links in the app
      {
          match: /slack.com/,
          browser: slackApp,
      },
  ],
};

• Reload Finicky config.

I hope this tip improves your productivity as much as it improved mine!