"To access the notebook, open this file in a browser:"

[rainexpected]

Hi,

Jupyter Notebook recently started displaying this message and then opening the html file in a text editor.  Not sure what I changed but how do I get rid of this behavior?

I am running Anaconda Python on a Debian Stretch system.

Thanks,

Ted

[Roland Weber]

Hello Ted,

you probably updated Jupyter Notebook. The notebook is no longer opened directly with a URL, but instead through a local .html file that redirects to the URL. That way, the URL with the token doesn't show in the process information anymore.

Try setting the NotebookApp.browser configuration property, or the BROWSER environment variable:

https://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config.html

"Specify what command to use to invoke a web browser when opening the notebook. If not specified, the default browser will be determined by the webbrowser standard library module, which allows setting of the BROWSER environment variable to override it."

Hope that helps,

  Roland

[rainexpected]

Hi Roland,

Many thanks!  I set it to x-www-browser and all is good.  I guess I haven't been keeping up with jupyter development!

Ted