# Where can I set a different browser to start OpenRefine?

**URL:** <https://forum.openrefine.org/t/where-can-i-set-a-different-browser-to-start-openrefine/233>\
**Category:** Running OpenRefine\
**Created:** [December 4, 2022, 11:03pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/where-can-i-set-a-different-browser-to-start-openrefine/233 "2022-12-04T23:03:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![lobaluna](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/lobaluna/32/127_2.png) [@lobaluna](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/lobaluna)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2022, 11:03pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/where-can-i-set-a-different-browser-to-start-openrefine/233/1 "2022-12-04T23:03:56Z")

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Hi, everybody! Glad to use this wonderful tool!

I normally use Firefox as my default browser. But I want to use Chromium for OpenRefine, and call the whole thing from a script.

I tried to find something in refine.ini configuration in order to change the browser that is call after for the openrefine web server. But I failed. Can someone point me in the correct direction, please?

This is what I’m trying to achieve, but since FF is default browser in my system, I always get it open :S

```auto
#!/usr/bin/env bash

qterminal -e /home/simonapetra/bin/openrefine-3.6.2/refine
chromium --new-window --enable-crashpad http://127.0.0.1:3333

```

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**Author:** ![abbe98](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/abbe98/32/1299_2.png) [@abbe98](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/abbe98)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/where-can-i-set-a-different-browser-to-start-openrefine/233/2 "2022-12-05T19:53:03Z")

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I don’t know of a way to open a non-default browser but maybe disabling the entire feature does the trick for you?

`JAVA_OPTIONS=-Drefine.headless=true`

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**Author:** ![lobaluna](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/lobaluna/32/127_2.png) [@lobaluna](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/lobaluna)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 3:27am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/where-can-i-set-a-different-browser-to-start-openrefine/233/3 "2022-12-06T03:27:37Z")

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That worked! Thank you so much!

Well, taking your suggestion as start point (which is totally correct, of course), I found that from the command-line, I can use the `-x` flag to add the key-value pair `refine.headless=true` after the `refine` executable:

`qterminal -e /home/simonapetra/bin/openrefine-3.6.2/refine -x refine.headless=true`

Here is where I find it:

> **[Running OpenRefine | OpenRefine](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/running/)**
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> Starting and exiting