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 Library
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+- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't because
+  the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
+
 - Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite loop.
 
 - Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython & SAGE