how to set custom 'browser_command' in windows?

[Explorare]

Same question. How to set Chrome in Windows 8.1 as default browser?

[vongoh]

I'm using Firefox Dev Edition as my main development browser, and the previews are opening up in my default O/S browser (Firefox).

As developers we could really use a setting to target specific browsers.

+1

[wilfredw]

Same question. How to set browser_command to launch preview using Google Chrome in Win10?

[ansiz]

@wilfredw @Explorare just set "browser_command": []

[wbllwa]

tks , just set "browser_command": [] is right ,because chrome is default browser

[ansiz]

@libowen0 @vongoh if you want to use customized browser instead of the system default browser on Windows

"browser_command": ["C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe","{url}"] 

replace the first parameter with your own browser path.

[geekyouth]

@libowen0 @vongoh if you want to use customized browser instead of the system default browser on Windows

"browser_command": ["C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe","{url}"] 

replace the first parameter with your own browser path.

but it do not work on my win10 computer 💥

[yuyuanjingxuan]

It should work by modifying:

"browser_command": ["C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe","{url}"] 

If it is still not working, try to open your console for more details. I guess it will tell you the real issue:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "....\OmniMarkupPreviewer\OmniMarkupPreviewer.py", line 81, in launching_web_browser_for_url
   ...
  TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API

So the reason is that subprocess.Popen is reading binary data, instead of str. The solution is to comment the line:

# browser_command = [arg.encode(encoding) for arg in browser_command]

Here is how I solve the issue in my case.