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title: "Slack links open in the wrong Chrome profile · Profile Porter"
description: "Why links from Slack open in the wrong Chrome profile on a Mac, and how to fix it: a quick workaround, a rule for every link from Slack, or the profile you're signed in to."
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How to

# Slack links open in the wrong Chrome profile? Here's the fix

Updated 9 November 2026

You click a GitHub or Google Docs link in Slack and it opens in your personal Chrome profile, signed out. Slack isn't choosing the profile, and neither is Chrome. Here's what happens, and how to fix it.

On this page

1. [Why it happens](https://profileporter.com/how-to/slack-links-wrong-chrome-profile/#why)
2. [Quick workaround](https://profileporter.com/how-to/slack-links-wrong-chrome-profile/#workaround)
3. [Send every Slack link to your work profile](https://profileporter.com/how-to/slack-links-wrong-chrome-profile/#slack-rule)
4. [Or let each link find its profile](https://profileporter.com/how-to/slack-links-wrong-chrome-profile/#per-site)

## Why it happens

Slack's desktop app hands every link to your Mac's default browser. Slack has no setting for which browser or profile to use. Chrome then opens the link in the profile whose window you used last. Click a Slack link right after reading personal mail, and it lands in your personal profile.

The same happens with links from Mail, Outlook, Teams, Notion, Linear and any other app.

## Quick workaround

Click a window of the right profile just before you click the link in Slack. Chrome then treats that profile as the last one used. It works, but you have to remember it every time, and it breaks as soon as you switch profiles in between.

## Send every Slack link to your work profile

If everything in Slack is work, a link router can send all links from Slack to one profile. In [Profile Porter](https://profileporter.com/), open **Settings › Sites** and, under **Apps**, add Slack with your work profile. Links from Slack now always open there, whatever window you used last. A site's own rule still comes first, so you can send, say, spotify.com elsewhere.

## Or let each link find its profile

If your Slack has both work and personal links, an app rule is too blunt. Without any rule, Profile Porter opens each link in the profile where you're signed in to that site and use it most, which it reads from your browsers on your Mac. The GitHub link goes to Work, the YouTube link to Personal. When it can't tell, it asks, and remembers your answer.

Hold **⇧** (Shift) while you click to choose the profile yourself, and if one ever opens in the wrong place, click **Undo** in the notice, or press **⌃⌥Z** to move the Chrome tab to another profile.

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## Related

- [How to open links in a specific Chrome profile on a Mac](https://profileporter.com/how-to/open-links-in-chrome-profile/)
- [How to use a different browser for each website on a Mac](https://profileporter.com/how-to/default-browser-per-website-mac/)
- [The Profile Porter guide: setup, the picker, rules and undo](https://profileporter.com/guide/)