You can set some browser-unrelated program or script as your desktop environment’s default browser, for example I wrote a Zsh script that creates a KDE dialog and asks me to copy the URL to the clipboard.
I’m not currently at my PC, but if you want it I can paste it in a comment here when I get to it - it shouldn’t be too hard to translate it to Bash, either.
Other than that? /usr/bin/true
is a pretty nice default browser for applications to start without your consent, very minimal and lightweight.
Here it is:
If you want to translate it to Bash, keep in mind that arrays behave differently between the two shells, and syntax like
for arg ($@); do
would likely misbehave or not work at all.Also, there’s an issue where some applications do something weird, and the URL seems to be a zero-length argument. I have absolutely no idea what’s up with that.