Launch IPython notebook with selected browser

Question

I am trying to start IPython with a non default browser (in my case Firefox) and thought I could replicate the replicate the script given in this blog

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Answer 1

I tried what JPG and norfeldt suggested. It worked perfectly on my Windows 7 computer. Here is a copy of the modified section of ipython_notebook_config.py (located under C:\Users\'your username'\.ipython to use Safari as the default browser for notebook. As norfeldt said, please notice the u before 'C:\...)

# c.NotebookApp.certfile = u''

import webbrowser
webbrowser.register('safari', None, webbrowser.GenericBrowser(u'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Safari\\safari.exe'))
c.NotebookApp.browser = 'safari'