New submission from Ray Luo <ray...@microsoft.com>:
Launching Chrome on Linux from command line:
$ export BROWSER=google-chrome; python -m webbrowser
https://httpbin.org/delay/10
It can successfully launch Chrome with the specified web page opened in a
new tab.
And the console command line finishes BEFORE the web page being fully
loaded in the browser. That is the desirable behavior.
Launching Edge on Linux from command line:
$ export BROWSER=microsoft-edge; python -m webbrowser
https://httpbin.org/delay/10
The command line hangs until the Edge window is closed.
That hanging symptom can be resolved by writing a deliberate script to
webbrowser.register("...", None,
webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser("microsoft-edge")) and then use that registered
browser. But it was not obvious, and it took trial-and-error to reach that
solution.
Could it be possible to have the "BROWSER=microsoft-edge; python -m webbrowser
https://httpbin.org/delay/10"; work out of the box, without hanging?
Is it because Edge is not currently predefined and handled inside
webbrowser.py? It seems not an easy decision to add new browser into
webbrowser.py, though, based on the 2nd and 3rd comments in this old issue:
https://bugs.python.org/issue42330
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 399030
nosy: rayluo
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: The command line of launching Edge on Linux hangs
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7
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