With the rise of privacy-led browsers, it is painful when using Local to open websites and have it open in the wrong browser.
Despite having Brave as my default system browser, and my Local settings set to “System Default” as my browser, it still opens Chrome. There are of course more browsers out there.
Similarly, I use the official Microsoft Windows Terminal and yet in my “Terminal” settings I can only choose “Command Prompt (Cmd)” or “Git Bash”. Please add more choices here too.
Thanks for bringing this up @elliottmangham – That’s interesting that the System Default for the browser isn’t opening Brave. It sounds like maybe that’s a bug. What version of Windows are you using?
I just installed the Firefox Developer Browser on my Windows PC. I do not want to use it as my default system browser. But I do want local to log me into it directly without having to fill out the WordPress password fields.
However when I go into preferences>appearance and behavior> then go to choose the browser I want to use with local, only the regular Firefox browser shows up. Not the Firefox Developer browser.
I have uninstalled Firefox Developer>shut down local> reinstalled Firefox Developer, and relaunched local. But still, the option for Firefox Developer is not showing up.
There isn’t a “fix” for this at this time, as the default apps have a specific set of options that are set by us. We’ll continue to monitor interest in other apps by users for potential additions in the future. Thank you for your patience and feedback!
Thanks so much for taking the time to reply.
My primary goal was to get local to automatically load FF Developer without the need for a separate step to login in to my dashboard. (as is possible with default browsers)
I guess there isn’t some file somewhere that I can edit to edit to add another search engine?
If not practical, its not a big issue.
I only thought I would try FF Developer for the extra features which I probably won’t even use much.
As far as default browsers, which one is most desirable, FF, Edge, Chrome for basic editing through the WordPress dashboard? … ??
Unfortunately, it wouldn’t be as simple as adding a file somewhere to make that happen @KLHlocal.
I would hazard a guess that Chrome is the most popular but we do seem to have a lot of users that rely on Firefox as well. This can be quite subjective however and depend on what sort of other tools you rely on so maybe worth some testing to see what works best for you
