What if we got to easily choose our web browser, and didn’t have to rely on complex operating system settings to change the pre-installed default?

  • VelociCatTurd@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Complex? You install Firefox and two seconds later it’s pestering the shit out of you to make it the default browser

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      1 year ago

      I think “complex” refers to the various dark patterns used by Windows and Mac/iOS to scare and/or force users that know nothing of computers into using the default browsers.

    • treesquid@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Guess what Edge and Chrome do if you make Firefox the default browser? They all harass you if you run them when they aren’t the default. At least Firefox respects the “don’t bother me about this again” checkbox

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I think that’s exactly his point. Every browser prompts you to make it default, it’s not exactly a complex change.

    • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      I think the article is talking about prompting users to choose a default browser without necessarily installing them, during the OS first run for example.