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No longer automatically open web browser when doing local views

What does this MR do and why?

When Hugo automatically opens a web browser, it takes window focus from anything else you're doing, whether from within the web browser or in another application.

I frequently have the correct URL already loaded locally, so having the browser re-open the docs landing page every time I run make view isn't necessary.

Because the correct URL to the docs landing page is printed to the terminal and easily followed, I don't think we should automatically open the browser at all and leave it to the individual.

CC @gitlab-org/technical-writing/tw-docops

How to set up and validate locally

  1. Configure a local GitLab Docs environment.
  2. Run make view. The web browser automatically opens.
  3. Check out this branch.
  4. Run make view. The web browser no longer automatically opens.

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