Change default browser while using scrapy's shell view function

Question

While on a scrapy shell, when I try to use the view(response) function, instead of opening a browser, it opens Visual Studio Code. How to make it open on a browser?

I read that webbrowser is the library used to view the page and that I could set the BROWSER variable to change its default. On a Linux Mint system, to which value should I change the BROWSER variable to in order to make the view command to open firefox?

Answer 1

Found the answer myself after some further searching.

The value of the BROWSER variable should be /usr/bin/firefox.

So, in my case, adding the following line to my ~/.bashrc file did the trick: export BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox.