Mac OS X: Google Chrome not detected

[kylegoetz]

I'm running the latest non-Canary Chrome (50.0.2661.102 (64-bit) as per the chrome://help page). I get the message

No browser matching [chrome,chromium,opera] found in the system! If this is not true, submit a bug report on https://github.com/benderjs/browser-launcher2
Please open the URL manually in Chrome/Chromium/Opera or similar browser

OSX version is Yosemite.

[kylegoetz]

Looking into the darwin directory, it looks like it detects Chrome via this command

mdfind "kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier=="com.google.Chrome"" | head -1

On my system, nothing is returned when I call this. This is because mdfind is dependent on Spotlight being enabled on your computer. This is not a safe assumption to make about OS X users. I will look into other ways to detect this.

(FWIW this was a similar bug reported in the original version of Browser Launcher: https://github.com/substack/browser-launcher/issues/23

[emveeoh]

+1 ... I have Spotlight disabled on my Mac and have also bumped into this (feature) of not finding Chrome Canary nor Chrome Standard. Both are installed on my machine. ;)

[jhlee8804]

Thanks! Hooooooooouh!