Re: pgAdmin 4 ignores its own config option: "BrowserCommand"

I don't know what you mean by right-clicking on the pgAdmin 4 Taskbar icon and selecting "Configure", because no such thing appears when I do that. The only other option other than running it is "Unpin".

As for the quotes around the path, it's required for the path to the Firefox.exe to be recognized properly. I did try without quotes around %URL%, though. Same thing. It doesn't run the command.

I don't know what you mean by "it" in "I can't say whether or not it honors alternate profiles", but pgAdmin doesn't need to support anything whatsoever; it's all about what Firefox does with the command parameters... but that command is not being sent. pgAdmin 4 appears to be ignoring its own config setting.

9 Aug 2019, 00:05 by rcoleman.ascentgl@gmail.com:

tutiluren, 

I am sorry to read that you are still having difficulties.  The MASTER_PASSWORD_REQUIRED string is documented in the pgAdmin4 documentation located here: https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/development/master_password.html .  As for the BrowserCommand I usually set it in the configure dialog that I get to by right clicking on the elephant taskbar icon and selecting "Configure".  My command is: chromium-browser %URL% , this is stored as: 

BrowserCommand=chromium-browser %URL%

in my pgadmin4.conf file.  Notice there are no " around the arguments, unlike your string.  Yes, the config.py, config_distro.py and config_local.py all contain keywords in the ALL_CAPS_SEPARATED_BY_UNDERSCORES while the pgadmin4.config file uses MixedCaseAllRunTogether.  It is a bit inconsistent.

I can't say whether or not it honors alternate profiles, as I just use an alternate browser, but perhaps it didn't like all of your quotes.

I hope that helps, 

rik.

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 3:44 PM <tutiluren@tutanota.com> wrote:

Okay, so after 30 million years of searching and reading and swearing and cursing, I've finally found the "BrowserCommand" configuration directive. So I set my C:\Program Files (x86)\pgAdmin 4\v4\web\config_local.py to:

MASTER_PASSWORD_REQUIRED=False

BrowserCommand="C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -p "pgAdmin" --no-remote "%URL%"

But when I then click the pgAdmin 4 start icon ("C:\Program Files (x86)\pgAdmin 4\v4\runtime\pgAdmin4.exe"), it *still* opens Firefox (default browser) with the DEFAULT profile. In other words, it ignores my BrowserCommand, which tells it to open the URL in the "pgAdmin" profile, which I've spent significant efforts setting up just for pgAdmin 4, so that I can finally use the program without being constantly harassed for passwords and losing all my work whenever Firefox needs to be restarted.

And no, there is nothing wrong with the command itself; I use it with other profiles. But pgAdmin is clearly ignoring it. What's wrong?

Also, MASTER_PASSWORD_REQUIRED is undocumented on https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/4.11/desktop_deployment.html , and doesn't use the same format (it would be MasterPasswordRequired if it were to follow the style of the other options)... What's up with that?

> I hope that helps,