[issue43111] webbrowser.py triggers unwanted XQuartz startup

[Ronald Oussoren]

Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> added the comment:

The same code is present in trunk. 

I'm in favour of disabling usage of X11 browsers of macOS, that's almost certainly not what users want.

I no longer have XQuartz installed on my machine, but when I did I only used it for running X11 GUIs on remote Linux systems.

What I'm not entirely sure about: is this something we should back port or just apply to the trunk (3.10)? This is a behaviour change and as such I'd be inclined to only apply to trunk.

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versions: +Python 3.10, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 -Python 3.7

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