Instead of opening my default macOS browser, opens Ubuntu VM through Parallels with Chromium

[felixfbecker]

Ever since Storybook changed to use better-opn my default browser doesn't open anymore when I run it, but instead an Ubuntu VM boots up in Parallels to launch Chromium. This is extremely annoying of course as it takes a lot of resources and takes a while to shut down again.

Here's my setup:

I am on macOS Catalina and have Parallels installed.

Inside Parallels, I have a Ubuntu VM:

Inside that Ubuntu VM, I have Chromium installed. This Chromium is registered in macOS as an app shortcut through Parallels:

This is NOT my default browser though. I use regular Chrome, and sometimes others for development, and have Choosy set as my default browser:

I would expect that better-opn will always respect the choice I made in macOS system settings as my browser (i.e. exactly what would be picked if you run open https://github.com on the command line).

But instead it always tries to launch Chromium for some reason, which is inside a VM and not my default browser.

[michaellzc]

the purpose of building this utility program is to re-use the same tab if possible and it can only be done with chromium on macOS, hence by default better-opn favours opening the URL in chromium-based browsers.

I suggest setting the BROWSER environment variable globally or on a per-project basis to the browser of your choice if you don't want such behaviour.

Learn more at storybookjs/storybook#12206 (comment)

I'll close this issue for now. Feel free to reopen if you believe there is a bug exist.