add more ways to configure web browser from command-line

[looran]

• option to use system browser
• option to add custom browser command-line arguments
• option to ignore https headers

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[simonw]

This is an interesting set of improvements.

I couldn't get the --system-browser option to work on macOS - do you know if there's a way to use it there?

I tried these:

>>> distutils.spawn.find_executable('Chrome')
>>> distutils.spawn.find_executable('chrome')
>>> distutils.spawn.find_executable('Firefox')
>>> distutils.spawn.find_executable('Firefox.app')
>>> distutils.spawn.find_executable('firefox')

None returned a path.

[looran]

Does shutil.which works on your platform ? It looks like a more suited replacement.

In [1]: import shutil
In [2]: shutil.which('chromium')
Out[3]: '/usr/bin/chromium'

[simonw]

Relevant: apparently distutils.spawn.find_executable is deprecated and scheduled for removal in Python 3.12:

• [Warning] Replace distutils.spawn.find_executable with shutil.which aws/sagemaker-python-sdk#3028

[looran]

I'm now using shutil.which in my branch, can you test if it now works on mac ?