How to configure Brackets.io Live Development to use Chromium instead of Chrome on OSX?

Question

I would like to reuse already installed in the system Chromium browser and do not additionally install Chrome (because then I can't use Chromium at the same time - they share one profile folder by default on OSX, also for other reasons)

Here are ideas, the problem is - they are just conceptual, not ready to implement:

• edit Brackets configs (didn't find much of them) to call Chromium (how it calls)
• edit Chromium configs (to mimic the Chrome?)
• use dev tools remote debugger and connect to created web-socket
• create link to Chromium via: sudo ln -s ~/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium /usr/bin/google-chrome // didn't work
• connect to the simple static server from the folder (via httpster) // didn't work

How is it possible to use Chromium instead of Google Chrome to use Brackets' Live Development feature?

Answer 1

On Mac, Brackets locates Chrome based on its bundle identifier. So in theory, if you hack Chromium's Info.plist to change its bundle id to com.google.Chrome (and I guess remove or patch any copies of Chrome that might collide with that) -- then Brackets should launch Chromium for you.

In the future, Brackets plans to make this more configurable as an official feature - but it's not there yet.