Today when you navigate to google.com from Microsoft Edge, there's a barrage of popups urging you to use Chrome instead.
When Chrome is completely dominant, maybe those popups will be on non-AMP sites urging you to "get the best experience"? It's guaranteed that there will be a lot of internal pressure to use Chrome to promote the goals of other divisions at Google.
Chrome already does this.
And a key UI target for a huge chunk of their applications and services, including search.
If "web browsing" doesn't work in Chrome, that's kind of a big deal for Google.
It only needs to make sense in the minds of a handful of high-level managers, and we all suffer.
Would you mind briefly elaborating on this? I wasn't aware that Mozilla had done anything apart from behave well.
I'm a long-time Firefox user, FWIW.
Why is that a problem? I never got the furore over it. When it appeared, I removed the icon and just went about my business.
Annoying yes, but certainly not "shady". From what I understood / stand it was a mozilla app they included with the browser, not that different to how firefox comes with a bookmarks app.
It's two clicks.
It took me a few months before I realized that the page was customizable at all, especially since the triple-dot menu doesn't even show up until you hover or focus the element.
> resetting default search provider back to Google on updates Never happened to me. Was this a specific update I might have missed?
https://github.com/mozilla/doh-rollout/issues/125
Don't get me wrong, DoH is great if you have a shady ISP. But it should be opt-in, not opt-out, since those of us who don't have shady ISPs don't want all our DNS queries centralized in the same place, to be scooped up with just one FISA warrant. And dark patterns like this are a pox on the web and Mozilla shouldn't be perpetuating them.
So what's shady here? That the process is working?
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/09/06/whats-nex...
If you live in the US or EU your ISP logs dns queries and sells them on [0] encryption is the only solution.
[0] https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2019/04/big-uk-broadba...
It's inconvenient, but it turns out the "open, anonymous" web has huge trust issues that bad actors use to exploit and attack the unknowing. Some of that is most readily solved by nudging users to trusted third-parties.
You can have issue with whether that third party should be trusted, but the larger issue is that the user has to trust some third party for DNS to work at all, and most don't even think twice about that question.
> since those of us who don't have shady ISPs don't want all our DNS queries centralized
If you don't hae a shady ISP, disable protection. You're already protected by your ISP not being shady, right? ;) The average user has no idea if they should trust their ISP's DNS.
This would still be preferable to if they became the only browser and all web developers were subject to breakneck paced new features and discontinued compatibility as Google makes their characteristic impulsive lurches with zero long term vision.
Bad decisions does not imply evil decisions, nor does it imply death. Pocket? A convenience people may want that might have provided money, hat didn't invade privacy. DNS over HTTPS? The horror! They are trying to enhance privacy on the Internet but haven't done it perfectly!
Firefox's tiny market share is all that stands between all the W3C and WHATG publications going from "standards" to "what Chromium does".
Google is a giant corporation. One day they're going to do an IE6, and shift their focus away from the project, and the whole web will suffer.