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Custom executable path for browsers #404

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@IlIllIl

I've done playwright-cli install-browser, and all browsers are installed/extracted in ~/Library/Caches/ms-playwright, but playwright-cli open --browser chrome still using hardcoded path /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome instead of ~/Library/Caches/ms-playwright/chromium-1224/chrome-mac-arm64/Google Chrome for Testing.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome for Testing

$ playwright-cli open --browser chrome
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/playwright-cli/0.1.13/libexec/lib/node_modules/@playwright/cli/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/tools/cli-client/session.js:167
    const rejectWithPid = (reject, message) => reject(Object.assign(new Error(`Daemon pid=${child.pid}: ${message}`), { daemonPid: child.pid }));
                                                                    ^

Error: Daemon pid=20025: Chromium distribution 'chrome' is not found at /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
Run "npx playwright install chrome"
    at rejectWithPid (/opt/homebrew/Cellar/playwright-cli/0.1.13/libexec/lib/node_modules/@playwright/cli/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/tools/cli-client/session.js:167:69)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (/opt/homebrew/Cellar/playwright-cli/0.1.13/libexec/lib/node_modules/@playwright/cli/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/tools/cli-client/session.js:177:11)
    at Socket.emit (node:events:509:20)
    at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:564:12)
    at readableAddChunkPushByteMode (node:internal/streams/readable:515:3)
    at Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:395:5)
    at Pipe.onStreamRead (node:internal/stream_base_commons:189:23) {
  daemonPid: 20025
}

Node.js v26.0.0

I'm on playwright-cli 0.1.13, installed by homebrew. The tool should first check the default path /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome , and then the download path ~/Library/Caches/ms-playwright/chromium-1224/chrome-mac-arm64/Google Chrome for Testing.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome for Testing.

It would be better if we can choose custom path and custom chrome/chromium-based browser like Brave Browser.

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