Respect the $BROWSER environment variable when attempting to launch URLs#444
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Right now,
azureauthattempts a known list of browser opening tools (such asxdg-open) in order to launch the oauth authorize url in--mode web, and fails if it can't find one of these tools. This doesn't work in github codespaces, as none of these tools exist! Comparing to howaz-cli, and theiraz logincommand handles it, they use the$BROWSERenvironment variable in order to inform what browser to use, rather than attempting to find known browser tools.This PR moves us to that environment variable model. To provide backwards compatibility for environments that don't have that set,
azureauthwill still use the static list if nothing is found.