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So you really want to change existing practice and break all
Python GUI programs that invoke webbrowser.open?

And the Elinks example proves my point.  What is the point
of it being a UnixBrowser, in the terminal window, if you
can't send remote commands to it (because the Python GUI
application is blocked until the browser exits)?  Tty-based
browsers are nice for completeness, but are really a last
resort for a Python application, and imply that no windowing
system is available (i.e, remotely logged in and not
forwarding X connections, so not running GUI applications
either).