Links and signing in

Links open in your browser

Each service only shows its own pages. A link to anywhere else, such as one someone sends you in a chat, opens in your default browser, with your extensions and your tabs.

Labaro never opens a second window. A link that would open a new window loads in the service if it’s one of the service’s own pages, and in your browser if it isn’t.

Signing in

Signing in usually happens inside the service, even when it goes through another site. Labaro already knows the sign-in sites its services use, such as Google’s or Microsoft’s.

Two things don’t work:

• Sign-in in a pop-up window. A sign-in that opens a small separate window, rather than moving to another page, can’t work, because Labaro doesn’t open second windows.
• “Sign in with Google” on Slack. Google refuses sign-in from apps that show web pages the way Labaro does. Use Slack’s email and password or sign-in link instead. Gmail itself signs in fine.

When a site opens in the wrong place

If a service keeps opening tabs in your browser for no reason, or sends you to your browser halfway through signing in, it’s usually trying to use a site Labaro doesn’t know about yet. To fix it:

1. Open Debug → Logs.
2. Pick the service from Service and look for lines with deny->external. Each one gives the address Labaro sent to your browser.
3. Right-click the service’s icon, choose Edit…, and open Advanced.
4. Under Allowed hosts, click + and type the site’s name, such as login.example.com. Press Return.

The next time the service goes there, it stays inside Labaro. There’s no need to reload.

Blocked hosts works the other way round. A site on it goes nowhere, not even to your browser. It’s useful for something a page loads in the background that keeps opening browser tabs.

Writing host names

• Type the site’s name only, without https:// or a path: accounts.google.com.
• *.example.com covers any one name in front of example.com, such as login.example.com. It doesn’t cover example.com itself, or a.login.example.com.

Uploading files

Attaching a file opens the usual macOS file picker. You can pick more than one file at a time.

Right-clicking in a page

Right-clicking inside a service shows its own menu if it has one, and otherwise the standard one, with Copy, Paste and so on. Inspect Element in it opens the developer console. See Tasks, Logs and Console.