I found a solution, or rather I was confused by part of the setup which obscured the solution. The setup placed a sym link in my local executables directory and I was using it to start soapui. The sym link looks like this:
soapUI-4.0.1 -> /home/user/SmartBear/soapUI-4.0.1/bin/soapUI-4.0.1
Running this looks like it avoids the change suggested above in soapui.sh -- It *looks like* the sym link should have been:
soapui.sh -> /home/user/SmartBear/soapUI-4.0.1/bin/soapui.sh
If I run /home/user/SmartBear/soapUI-4.0.1/bin/soapui.sh, my problem is solved by the disabling of the browser as shown above -- I'm guessing I could run this as a sym link too most likely and will experiment with that.
SmartBear, why is soapUI-4.0.1 sym linked, shouldn't it be soapui.sh?