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Opening Microsoft Teams meeting links directly in Teams instead of opening Safari first on the Mac

There is a free, open source utility called Finicky that you can set as the default browser on your Mac and then configure to open certain links in certain browsers. I use it to make Teams launch directly when I click on Teams meeting links instead of first opening Safari and then opening Teams. You can install it from the site linked above or with homebrew with the following command: brew cask install finicky After installing it, save a text file called .finicky.js in your home directory. That period at the beginning of the filename needs to be there. Add the content below to make Teams open directly when you click on a Teams meeting link in any program. You can change the "Safari" on the defaultBrowser line to whatever your default browser is. /** * Save as ~/.finicky.js */ module.exports = { defaultBrowser: "Safari", rewrite: [ { match: /teams.microsoft.com\/l\/meetup-join\//, url: { protocol: "msteams" } } ], handlers: [ { match