Can't delete repos, Auth stuck about cli HOT 2 OPEN

UPDATE: I think you have to open the browser first then let it open up a new tab then close the tab
for it to work. When you let it open up the browser on it's own I don't think it will work cause
that was the problem I was having. I did manage to get it to work after messing with it.
Not sure if this is a bug or not?

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Hey @rickalex21, sorry for the long delay in responding to this after Christmas. Some team changes and a large backlog.

I'm really not sure what you're running into here, after you enter the code the CLI will poll the server for the access token:
https://github.com/cli/oauth/blob/adf5f733ffd14993aad9f3ff02c757a737f7c63b/device/device_flow.go#L131-L175

If it's hanging forever something funky is going on but I'm afraid I don't have enough information here to make a guess. Was it definitely hanging forever? How long did you wait?

Regarding:

I'm on firefox, I can't try it with brave because it won't open brave despite brave being my default browser.

The CLI will try to interrogate some environment variables and config https://github.com/cli/go-gh/blob/d88d88f917cd4e0bcaa582bac2bb909bd79f9759/pkg/browser/browser.go#L69-L80

And if it can't find any of those it will ask the system to help out (here's the linux code) https://github.com/cli/browser/blob/b393df5d7bfa7490b76669e04a8652c3e167c524/browser_linux.go#L8-L21

I'm not exactly sure how those relate to your "default browser".

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