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       (if (not browse-url-generic-program)
	 (error "No browser defined (`browse-url-generic-program')"))
    -  (apply 'start-process (concat browse-url-generic-program url) nil
    -	 browse-url-generic-program
    +  (apply 'call-process browse-url-generic-program nil
    +	 0 nil
	     (append browse-url-generic-args (list url))))

This change will always run the browser synchronously.
It might have quite negative effects.
Is this change ok for all the common browsers?