Useful Jupyter Notebook Tips - Setting Default Browser

Something that I have been finding works quite well is using jupyter in Firefox, and my browsing in Chrome. It’s a pain to get the notebook server set up and copy the link every time into a Firefox window. Ok, maybe not a pain, but why not set a default.

So following the answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35578527/5392922:

create ~/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py by:

jupyter notebook --generate-config

Then open ~/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py and change the line # c.NotebookApp.browser = ''. The suggested change is c.NotebookApp.browser = '/usr/bin/google-chrome'. I don’t have Firefox in /usr/bin/, so the change is:

c.NotebookApp.browser = u'open -a /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox %s'

The u and %s are needed for string comprehension, but this line should mean, that by default Firefox opens when jupyter notebook is run.