Microsoft Edge not detected (Quarto 1.6.4)

[Steinthal]

Bug description

I've removed chromium from my MacBook (and Mac Mini). After a restart, Quarto 1.6.4 complains that no chromium was detected and does not use Microsoft Edge which is installed. Reference: #10172

Steps to reproduce

Take the example from the original post (#10162):

---
title: "In-Class: Relations - Digraphs"
format: 
  pdf: default
---

Any quarto document that includes a diagram and compiling a PDF; here's a sample:


```{dot}
//| fig-width: 2
digraph {
  node [shape = circle, width=0.5];
  rankdir = LR;
  1 -> 1;
  1 -> 2;
  2 -> 4; 
  1 -> 3;
  3 -> 4;
  4 -> 1;
}

```

Expected behavior

Edge should be used if chromium is not installed

Actual behavior

Error message:

ERROR: Chrome not found

No Chrome or Chromium installation was detected.

Please run 'quarto install chromium' to install Chromium.

Your environment

• IDE: n/a
• macOS: 14.6 (23G80) as well as 15.1 Beta (24B5009l)

Quarto check output

Quarto 1.6.4
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.2.0: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.70.0: OK
      Deno version 1.41.0: OK
      Typst version 0.11.0: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.6.4
      Path: /Applications/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: (not installed)
      Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Using: Installation From Path
      Path: /Library/TeX/texbin
      Version: 2024

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.10.2
      Path: /Users/USER/.pyenv/versions/3.10.2/bin/python3
      Jupyter: 5.3.1
      Kernels: python3

[✓] Checking Jupyter engine render....OK

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.4.1
      Path: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
      LibPaths:
        - /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/library
      knitr: 1.48
      rmarkdown: 2.27

[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

[mcanouil]

Does the following path is correct in your machine? /Applications/Microsoft Edge.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Edge

[Steinthal]

ls -l /Applications/Microsoft\ Edge.app/Contents/MacOS/
total 920
-rwxrwxr-x  1 USER  admin  469248  1 Aug 20:33 Microsoft Edge

[mcanouil]

The path set in the PR is correct then, so the issue might be the following part:

   return programs.find((p) => {
      safeExistsSync(p);
    });

[mcanouil]

Replacing the code I mentioned with the code below (similarly to Windows) works:

    for (let i = 0; i < programs.length; i++) {
      path = programs[i];
      if (path && existsSync(path)) break;
    }

or

return programs.find(safeExistsSync);

• quarto-cli/src/core/puppeteer.ts

  Lines 209 to 211 in 39dc173

  	return programs.find((p) => {
  	safeExistsSync(p);
  	});

I think the code should also be updated to observe some environment variable, for instance I would personally like to be able to use Brave ("/Applications/Brave Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave Browser")

[mcanouil]

I made a PR with the fix:

• fix: Microsoft Edge not detected (Quarto 1.6.4) on macOS #10574

[Steinthal]

I've installed Quarto 1.6.6 but still get the same error…

Anything I can check if some old settings might cause the behavior?

Here's some more info:

USER@Mac % quarto tools 
[✓] Inspecting tools

Tool         Status            Installed     Latest     
chromium     Not installed     ---           869685     
tinytex      Not installed     ---           v2024.07.03



USER@Mac % quarto check
Quarto 1.6.6
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.2.0: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.70.0: OK
      Deno version 1.41.0: OK
      Typst version 0.11.0: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.6.6
      Path: /Applications/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: (not installed)
      Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Using: Installation From Path
      Path: /opt/homebrew/bin
      Version: undefined

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.12.5
      Path: /opt/homebrew/opt/python@3.12/bin/python3.12
      Jupyter: (None)

      Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
      Install with python3 -m pip install jupyter

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.4.1
      Path: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
      LibPaths:
        - /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/library
      knitr: 1.48
      rmarkdown: 2.28

[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

[mcanouil]

The PR was not merged as indicated by GitHub and this issue is still open. Why would you expect things to change in a new release?

[Steinthal]

Sorry, I misread

Other Fixes and Improvements
#10162: Use Edge on macOS as a Chromium browser when available.

[mcanouil]

That's the initial PR you even mentioned in your report, which you already know is not working as intended.

As for every single issues/discussions, we'll update as soon as there is something to update about.

[mcanouil]

@Steinthal the fix should be part of the next pre-release build.

[Steinthal]

Just installed 1.6.7 and can confirm that the fix is working . Thanks a lot, guys.