Changing browser for IPython Notebook from system default

Question

I would like to keep firefox as my system default browser on my Mac, but launch IPython Notebook in Chrome^[1].

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Answer 1

For Mac users, the best way is to change the default browser from the system preferences/General, and enjoy your new browser for jupyter notebook.

Answer 2

Since the great switch to Jupyter, and with recent versions of OS X (e.g., Yosemite), Jupyter/iPython (e.g., 4.0.1), and Chrome (e.g., 47), things have changed a bit. Jupyter/iPython no longer puts the notebook config file in ~/.ipython; it's now in ~/.jupyter, and the default file is generated with

jupyter notebook --generate-config

If you have an existing ipython_notebook_config.py you can migrate it with jupyter migrate (H/T).

After generating or migrating your config file, add the following line to jupyter_notebook_config.py:

c.NotebookApp.browser = u'/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome %s'

Answer 3

For future reference, this works looks the most elegant way to edit jupyter_notebook_config.py for me on macOS:

c.NotebookApp.browser = u'open -a "Google Chrome" %s'

You can obviously replace "Google Chrome" with any other browser.

Full procedure:

1. jupyter notebook --generate-config
2. open ./jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py
3. Find the line #c.NotebookApp.browser and edit it as above

Answer 4

If you don't want to open the browser at all, you can add ipython notebook --no-browser.

Answer 5

This worked for me on OSX Mavericks:

c.NotebookApp.browser = u'/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome %s'

Answer 6

Based on this answer, (running Python 2.7.3 and IPython-0.13.1 on Linux), all I had to set in my ipython_notebook_config.py was

c.NotebookApp.browser = u'/usr/bin/google-chrome %s'

I'm guessing, setting c.NotebookApp.browser to /Applications/Browsers/Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome %s should work for you.