[FR] Add kwarg to Pluto.run() for choosing browser

[KronosTheLate]

Referencing to the discussion at discource that spawned this issue.

I use Firefox as my default browser, but it seems like it does not handle the markdown or HTML well - I am having most of the lines in my notebook spanning two lines instead of 1, which really clutters things (see my issue about it). So I want to keep my default browser, but have Pluto notebooks launch in Chrome. Would it be possible to add a kwarg, something like path_to_browser, which would allow me to chose the browser to launch in?

[fonsp]

I am declining this feature request because we need to prioritize. You can write a Pluto launcher script yourself or use a fork of Pluto

[holomorphism]

@KronosTheLate I am using Ubuntu (Xubuntu) Linux and have set the following command in the GUI launcher button to start Pluto.

zsh -c "julia -e 'import Pluto; Pluto.run(;require_secret_for_access=false)'"

If you are also using Linux, you can change this to the following and it should work as you wish.

zsh -c "julia -e 'import Pluto; Pluto.run(;require_secret_for_access=false,launch_browser=false)' & { sleep 3; google-chrome-stable http://localhost:1234; }"

The following points should be modified according to your environment.

• If you are not using zsh, change it to another shell (e.g, bash).
• The path to the julia command needs to be referable from the shell. For example, I have the following line in ~/.zshenv:

  export PATH=$HOME/julia-1.6.0/bin:$PATH

• If chrome starts before Pluto starts, increase the number of seconds to sleep.