browsers not found

[oprogramador]

⟩ npx envinfo@latest --preset create-react-app
npx: installed 1 in 1.1s

  System:
    OS: macOS Mojave 10.14.6
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3635QM CPU @ 2.40GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 12.5.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.5.0/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.16.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.5.0/bin/yarn
    npm: 6.9.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.5.0/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: Not Found
    Firefox: Not Found
    Safari: Not Found
  npmPackages:
    react: ^16.13.0 => 16.13.0 (15.6.2)
    react-dom: ^16.13.0 => 16.13.0
    react-scripts: Not Found
  npmGlobalPackages:
    create-react-app: Not Found

[ryhinchey]

hi @oprogramador. happy to try and help you here. if you run mdfind "kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier=='com.google.Chrome'" in your terminal, what do you get? I get /Applications/Google Chrome.app.

when I run npx envinfo@latest --preset create-react-app, I get the following:

npx: installed 1 in 2.816s

  System:
    OS: macOS 10.15.3
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770HQ CPU @ 2.20GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 13.9.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v13.9.0/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.0 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
    npm: 6.13.7 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v13.9.0/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 80.0.3987.149
    Firefox: 73.0.1
    Safari: 13.0.5
  npmPackages:
    react: Not Found
    react-dom: Not Found
    react-scripts: Not Found
  npmGlobalPackages:
    create-react-app: Not Found```

[oprogramador]

@ryhinchey

now my result is the following:

⟩ npx envinfo@latest --preset create-react-app
npx: installed 1 in 1.485s

  System:
    OS: macOS Mojave 10.14.6
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3635QM CPU @ 2.40GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 12.5.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.5.0/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.16.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.5.0/bin/yarn
    npm: 6.9.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.5.0/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 80.0.3987.149
    Firefox: Not Found
    Safari: 13.1
  npmPackages:
    react: ^16.13.0 => 16.13.0
    react-dom: Not Found
    react-scripts: Not Found
  npmGlobalPackages:
    create-react-app: Not Found

I don't know what changed that now it detects Chrome and Safari. Anyway, it still doesn't detect Firefox though I have it installed globally.

[tabrindle]

I've found that sometimes the underlying command mdfind "kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier=='com.google.Chrome'" and similar doesn't actually find the browsers, even when they are there although intermittently. Since mdfind seems to be a cli for spotlight this is not terribly surprising. We may consider a more reliable and portable find command for the future.

[ryhinchey]

I've found that sometimes the underlying command mdfind "kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier=='com.google.Chrome'" and similar doesn't actually find the browsers, even when they are there although intermittently. Since mdfind seems to be a cli for spotlight this is not terribly surprising. We may consider a more reliable and portable find command for the future.

This is good to know!

[Haprog]

I just tried envinfo for the first time (on Windows 10) and it find Chrome, Edge and IE but doesn't find/show Firefox and Brave which are also installed (there's no output about those two).

[tianheg]

Hi, just found this useful tool. I can't get browsers either. However, I installed three browsers.

Here is the browsers path:

/usr/bin/firefox-developer-edition
/usr/bin/google-chrome-unstable
/usr/bin/microsoft-edge-stable

Here is the envinfo output:

  System:
    OS: Linux 6.7 Arch Linux
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz
    Memory: 17.34 GB / 23.36 GB
    Container: Yes
    Shell: 5.9 - /usr/bin/zsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 20.11.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v20.11.0/bin/node
    npm: 10.2.4 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v20.11.0/bin/npm
    bun: 1.0.26 - /usr/bin/bun
  Managers:
    Cargo: 1.75.0 - /usr/bin/cargo
    pip3: 23.3.2 - ~/.pyenv/shims/pip3
    RubyGems: 3.3.25 - /usr/bin/gem
  Utilities:
    Make: 4.4.1 - /usr/bin/make
    GCC: 13.2.1 - /usr/bin/gcc
    Git: 2.43.0 - /usr/bin/git
    FFmpeg: 6.1.1 - /usr/bin/ffmpeg
    Curl: 8.6.0 - /usr/bin/curl
  Virtualization:
    Docker: 24.0.7 - /usr/bin/docker
    VirtualBox: 7.0.14 - /usr/bin/vboxmanage
  IDEs:
    Emacs: 29.2 - /usr/bin/emacs
    Vim: 9.1 - /usr/bin/vim
  Languages:
    Bash: 5.2.26 - /usr/bin/bash
    Go: 1.21.6 - /usr/bin/go
    Java: 1.8.0_402 - /usr/bin/javac
    Perl: 5.38.1 - /usr/bin/perl
    Protoc: 25.2 - /usr/bin/protoc
    Python: 3.11.6 - /home/archie/.pyenv/shims/python
    Python3: 3.11.6 - /home/archie/.pyenv/shims/python3
    Ruby: 3.0.6 - /usr/bin/ruby
    Rust: 1.75.0 - /usr/bin/rustc
  Databases:
    SQLite: 3.45.1 - /usr/bin/sqlite3