Changing browser for IPython Notebook from system default

Question

I would like to keep firefox as my system default browser on my Mac, but launch IPython Notebook in Chrome^[1].

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Answer 1

For future reference, this works looks the most elegant way to edit jupyter_notebook_config.py for me on macOS:

c.NotebookApp.browser = u'open -a "Google Chrome" %s'

You can obviously replace "Google Chrome" with any other browser.

Full procedure:

1. jupyter notebook --generate-config
2. open ./jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py
3. Find the line #c.NotebookApp.browser and edit it as above