ionic cordova run browser does not work with chromium

[cprima]

Description:

Re-opening #2160 with v3:
Several distributions don't have google-chrome installed but the open source chromium.
ionic-cli does not detect this, but fails hard with:

Error executing "google-chrome --user-data-dir=/tmp/temp_chrome_user_data_dir_for_cordova http://localhost:8000/index.html": /bin/sh: 1: google-chrome: not found

Steps to Reproduce:

Example repo: N/A

1. ionic start issue blank
2. ionic cordova platform add browser
3. ionic cordova run browser

Output:

ionic cordova run browser
[WARN] Detected @ionic/cli-plugin-cordova in your package.json.

       As of CLI 3.8, it is no longer needed. You can uninstall it:

       npm uninstall --save-dev --save-exact @ionic/cli-plugin-cordova

[WARN] Detected @ionic/cli-plugin-ionic-angular in your package.json.

       As of CLI 3.8, it is no longer needed. You can uninstall it:

       npm uninstall --save-dev --save-exact @ionic/cli-plugin-ionic-angular

[INFO] Running app-scripts build: --platform browser --target cordova

[06:43:13]  build dev started ...
[06:43:13]  clean started ...
[06:43:13]  clean finished in 5 ms
[06:43:13]  copy started ...
[06:43:13]  transpile started ...
[06:43:17]  transpile finished in 3.80 s
[06:43:17]  preprocess started ...
[06:43:17]  deeplinks started ...
[06:43:17]  deeplinks finished in 77 ms
[06:43:17]  preprocess finished in 77 ms
[06:43:17]  webpack started ...
[06:43:17]  copy finished in 4.07 s
[06:43:29]  webpack finished in 11.70 s
[06:43:29]  sass started ...
[06:43:30]  sass finished in 1.28 s
[06:43:30]  postprocess started ...
[06:43:30]  removed unused font files
[06:43:30]  postprocess finished in 12 ms
[06:43:30]  lint started ...
[06:43:30]  build dev finished in 16.95 s
> ionic cordova prepare
> cordova prepare
✔ Running command - done!


> cordova run browser
Running command: /home/user/issue/platforms/browser/cordova/build 

Cleaning Browser project
[06:52:11]  lint finished in 3.21 s 
Running command: /home/user/issue/platforms/browser/cordova/run --nobuild

Static file server running @ http://localhost:8000/index.html
CTRL + C to shut down
Error executing "google-chrome --user-data-dir=/tmp/temp_chrome_user_data_dir_for_cordova http://localhost:8000/index.html": /bin/sh: 1: google-chrome: not found


[OK] Your app has been deployed.
     Did you know you can live-reload changes from your app with --livereload?

My ionic info:

$ ionic info

cli packages: (/home/user/ionic/test001/perimeterlights_guiapp/node_modules)

@ionic/cli-utils  : 1.9.2
ionic (Ionic CLI) : 3.9.2

global packages:

Cordova CLI : 7.0.1

local packages:

@ionic/app-scripts : 2.1.3
Cordova Platforms  : android 6.2.3 browser 4.1.0
Ionic Framework    : ionic-angular 3.6.0

System:

Node : v6.11.2
npm  : 3.10.10
OS   : Linux 4.10

Other Information:

Thw workaround in #2160 (comment) does work, although the file needs to be in $PATH.

[imhoffd]

This is a Cordova issue. You can confirm this with cordova run browser. We don't really support the browser platform. See #2312