Hi, well my use case is actually that I'm trying to use the gem 'gem-browse' which uses 'git web--browse' I'm not using Apple Terminal, I'm using iTerm2 and there doesn't seem to be a SECURITYSESSIONID set, at least echo didn't find any. But neither did I find it on Apple Terminal either. What troubles me is that this issue has only arisen recently, earlier this worked fine for me On 15 March 2013 11:19, Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Timo Sand <timo.j.sand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I tried to open a website by runnin 'git web--browse http://google.com' >> and it replied 'No known browser available'. > > First git web--browse is a plumbing shell script to display > documentation on a web browser when you type something like "git help > -w log". > It is not really supposed to be used directly by the user. On OS X it > might be simpler to just type "open http://google.com";. > > That said there is the following in it to make it work on OS X: > > # SECURITYSESSIONID indicates an OS X GUI login session > if test -n "$SECURITYSESSIONID" \ > -o "$TERM_PROGRAM" = "Apple_Terminal" ; then > browser_candidates="open $browser_candidates" > fi > > So I guess that you don't have SECURITYSESSIONID set in your terminal > and you are not using Apple Terminal. > > As I am not using OS X, I have no idea how to improve the script in this case. > >> I also tried with '--browser=chrome' and '--browser=google-chrome' but >> the responded with 'The browser chrome is not available as 'chrome'.' > > Could you try something like: "chromium http://google.com"; or > "chromium-browser http://google.com"; > If it works, then using 'git web--browse' with '--browser=chromium' or > '--browser=chromium-browser' should work. > > Otherwise did you try "chrome http://google.com"; and "google-chrome > http://google.com";? > >> I expected the command to open a new tab in my browser in each of the 3 tries. >> This has worked for my system before. >> >> OS X 10.8.2, git 1.8.2, Google Chrome 27.0.1438.7 dev > > Thanks, > Christian. -- Timo Sand timo.j.sand+sig@xxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html