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Problem:
Even with dev null and disown..
web browser is still reporting errors to the terminal
it launched from of.

  web_browser < /dev/null > /dev/null 1>&2 & disown
Jeff Schaller
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  • The incorrect redirection resulted from an incorrect answer at http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/344349/5132 . – JdeBP Feb 12 '17 at 11:17

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You've got your redirections in disorder.

web_browser </dev/null 2>/dev/null 1>&2 & disown

What you did was first to redirect standard output to /dev/null, and then again to standard error.

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