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Deciding for ourselves: 98% of people want a browser choice screen, Mozilla study finds
(blog.mozilla.org)
this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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I don't understand? When you launch any browser it's a 1 click "yes" to set as default.
To set it via Windows settings, you just search "browser" and select it from the drop down.
On windows 10 its 1 click away only for Edge. For any other browser the settings page is opened and you do it feom there. Now, for me and you the settings page is the most trivial thing to operate, but for others it might not be.
On windows 11 they have broken down the default browser to a million default settings, and you need to change each and every one individually.
In google pixel a chrome-like search bar is stuck to every page on your homescreen, takes a full row, and very accidently clickable. You need to change the OS or launcher to stop this.
And then some things on all of those systems will always open eith chrome/Edge with no non hackish way of changing that.
Jesus you see why I use Linux?
Same. Those companies abuse the fact they control the platform to push all of their other products. Nowadays to compete with a microsoft product in a fair way you also need to develope a popular deskrop OS, an office suite, cloud services and multiple programmong environments, because each of their products keeps pushing the other peoducts, and the platform control part simply gives them advantages only they can have.