When it comes to programming with Dart and Flutter, one should probably expect to also have support for web programming using WASM for example. In some case, like on my side, my browser was not detected. Flutter documentation does not clearly explain how to set the browser in case of issue. Let try to investigate a bit.

Flutter and Dart have been installed using asdf on my side, using the latest version available. My OS is a Debian-like (Parrot Linux). My default browser on this system is Brave, but I sometimes use Firefox or Chromium as well depending on my needs, in particular when few specific addons are required.

Anyway, when using flutter devices , the browser should be present in the list of available device, but, surprise, it was not the case on my side.

$ flutter devices Found 2 connected devices: Linux (desktop) • linux • linux-x64 • Parrot Security 7.2 (echo) 6.19.13+parrot7-amd64

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