Stop Mission Control from Switching Screen on App Launch

I do development on my Mac, and use Mission Control to have a bunch of different spaces. I have it configured to display web browsers all on a specific space (call it my "browser space").
Part of my work process involves running functional tests via Selenium, which spawns off multiple web browsers as it runs tests. I'd like to be able to do work in other spaces while it's running, but every time a new browser is spawned, I get violently ganked back to my browser space.
I have tried checking/unchecking the "When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application" to no avail.
It's really frustrating. Is there an easy fix to this?

If you don't have an application bound to a space, then it should launch it in the space you're in.
If you *do* have an appliation bound to a space, it's going to switch.
Don't bind many applications to spaces, and you should lessen this frustration.

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