Firefox spokesperson Christopher Hilton tells The Verge that the browser has seen a more than 50 percent jump in users in Germany and a nearly 30 percent increase in France.
Brave saw a similar increase in users after Apple started letting users choose their default browsers on iOS 17.4 in the EU last week.
Could someone add an image of this setup screen?
I dont get why Apple would actively advertise other browsers.
Android is completely open and people still use Chrome, as its the default and nothing advertizes Firefox (Mull) or others like Cromite, Brave, Vivaldi etc.
That’s wrong, android actually advertises to switch the standard browser and search engine. But tbh only recently.
Maybe on setup but not on factory reset it seems.
I have ever only gotten factory reset phones… and one that was in arab but I could find the settings by comparing menus to grapheneos, pixel os is luckily close to AOSP
At least for Android, you can pick your default browser from a selection in the installation when you first setup your phone. So no, Chrome is not necessarily the default on Android.
What? I never saw such a selection on setup, and I set up some Nokia Android, LineageOS, GrapheneOS and Google Pixel OS
It’s a recent eu (or eea) thing: https://www.android.com/choicescreen/dma/
Edit: that article seems to suggest that it’s only just now a thing, but it has been here a few years already, from 2019: https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/presenting-search-app-and-browser-options-android-users-europe/:
Never saw this, maybe it doesnt show when the phone is reset?
No clue. Since google only wants to give this choice to users from the eea, there is going to have to be some country verification done. The 2019 blog post spoke about presenting the choice to users after an update.
Maybe the change since March 2024 is that that choice will be given during initial setup instead of later. But that change will likely take some more time to be implemented into updates from device manufacturers, I don’t know how fast android updates follow these days.
I always buy used (by people too lazy or with weird believes that dont want to repair or use old phoned). I really suppose they dont show this on factory reset.
From the Brave PR account:
Also I believe it was legally required by the EU. List is randomized.
Fucking onion browser??? Damn
I can’t add it as I already used it. There was a list of browsers and Safari was the last one.
Crazy, this is crazy. And extremely good!
Chrome isn’t necessarily the default. Samsung Browser is a thing
Lol right, people use whatever they get fed. I cant believe how people use phones as products, what came with it MUST be perfect
