suppress/redirect stderr when calling python webrowser

Question

I have a python program that opens several urls in seperate tabs in a new browser window, however when I run the program from the command line and open the browser using

webbrowser.open_new(url)

The stderr from firefox prints to bash. Looking at the docs I can't seem to find a way to redirect or suppress them

I have resorted to using

browserInstance = subprocess.Popen(['firefox'], stdout=log, stderr=log)

Where log is a tempfile & then opening the other tabs with webbrowser.open_new.

Is there a way to do this within the webbrowser module?

Answer 1

What is webbrowser.get() giving you?

If you do

 webbrowser.get('firefox').open(url)

then you shouldn't see any output. The webbrowser module choses to leave stderr for some browsers - in particular the text browsers, and then ones where it isn't certain. For all UnixBrowsers that have set background to True, no output should be visible.