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Re:The Firefox Dilemma by Jonnax on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @06:06AM (#18654529)
Also Firefox for Android gets a shit version of Google search. But if you spoof your user agent it works perfectly.

That definitely is using their dominance in search to make people.use their web browser.

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Re:The Firefox Dilemma by EwanToo on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @06:45AM (#18654676)
That's recently (and silently as far as I can tell) changed for me, I now get a fairly good google search on Firefox on Android.

However you're right in general Google are using the position to enforce Chrome

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Re:The Firefox Dilemma by hkt on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @06:58AM (#18654735)
Doesn't surprise me. The EU should fine Google for a lot of things, including that.

There's always duckduckgo, though.

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Re:The Firefox Dilemma by IshKebab on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @08:16AM (#18655089)
That's been fixed recently but there is another issue - Google search results from the home screen always open in a Chrome view, even if your default browser is Firefox. You end up with an awkward mix of Chrome and Firefox.
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Re:The Firefox Dilemma by vthriller on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @09:20AM (#18655416)
Those rare folks who prefer older Google interfaces might actually consider this a feature, a nice additional reason to ditch modern Chrome.
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Re:The Firefox Dilemma by simfoo on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @06:48AM (#18654687)
Can you give more details?
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Re:The Firefox Dilemma by dessant on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @07:15AM (#18654819)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=975444
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