Why do we launch with xdg-open?

Building from Source and Advanced Topics
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At the end of the installation instructions it states to launch GCE using

xdg-open "http://127.0.0.1:9392" 2>/dev/null >/dev/null &

Why do we need to do it like this and is it really different from opening a browser on the host and pasting the URL into its address bar? It just seems to open the given URL using my default browser while discarding any messages that might come up from opening the browser.

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Are you sure you use a genuine Greenbone script ? It looks like a uncoordinated integration not supported here.

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I followed this documentation. At the end of that page you will see.

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You can use any brower to connect to the GSA … just use any brower and ignore that.

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