xdg-default-browser
Advanced tools
Get default browser on Linux
$ npm install --save xdg-default-browser
var xdgDefaultBrowser = require('xdg-default-browser');
xdgDefaultBrowser(function (err, browser) {
console.log(browser);
//=> {name: 'Google Chrome', id: 'google-chrome.desktop'}
});
$ npm install --global xdg-default-browser
$ xdg-default-browser --help
Example
xdg-default-browser
Google Chrome
MIT © Kevin Mårtensson
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Get default browser on Linux
The npm package xdg-default-browser receives a total of 6,077 weekly downloads. As such, xdg-default-browser popularity was classified as popular.
We found that xdg-default-browser demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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