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[Ista Zahn]

I generally use firebox for browsing the web, but I'd like to run openrefine in chromium. I've tried setting the BROWSER environment variable, and running 'xdg-settings set default-web-browser chromium.desktop' but no matter what I do openrefine starts firefox. I've also looked high and low for a switch to change the browser (or even just to run without starting the browser, I'm happy to start it myself) but no matter what it starts firefox!

Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Ista

[Ista Zahn]

Oh I found it at https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/1677#issuecomment-648335037:

refine -p \$PORT -x refine.headless=true

works great, sorry for the noise here.

[Thad Guidry]

Hmm... we should probably put that into some Troubleshooting section or in our FAQ...

Thanks for finding out the solution, Ista!

Thad

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[Thad Guidry]

We already have it in our FAQ.

https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/FAQ/_edit#can-i-run-openrefine-headless-without-a-browser-and-what-options-are-there

Thad

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[Ista Zahn]

Oh goodness, now I feel silly for not googling "headless"! Thanks for  pointing me to the FAQ; I updated it to explicitly mention -x refine.headless=true

--Ista

[Tom Morris]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 4:53 PM Ista Zahn <ista...@gmail.com> wrote:

I generally use firebox for browsing the web, but I'd like to run openrefine in chromium. I've tried setting the BROWSER environment variable, and running 'xdg-settings set default-web-browser chromium.desktop' but no matter what I do openrefine starts firefox. I've also looked high and low for a switch to change the browser (or even just to run without starting the browser, I'm happy to start it myself) but no matter what it starts firefox!

What is configured as the default browser in your desktop? OpenRefine basically does the equivalent of typing:

    open http://127.0.0.1:3333/

at a shell prompt, which should invoke your default browser.

Tom

[Owen Stephens]

On Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 9:53:25 PM UTC ista...@gmail.com wrote:

 I've also looked high and low for a switch to change the browser

As others have noted, when you start OpenRefine it will open your default browser and navigate  to the OpenRefine interface (usually at http://127.0.0.1:3333). However, once OpenRefine has started you can open whichever browser you want to use and paste the address (http://127.0.0.1:3333) into that browser's address bar. OpenRefine is just being accessed like a web page or application (even though its running on your computer) - so you can put the address into any compatible browser

Best wishes

Owen