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Re:Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protecti... by tomComb on Monday September 13, 2021 @04:46PM (#28516654)
Not sure you can really blame android, when Android allows Firefox as a first class replacement for Chrome and with ease for the user, whereas iOS doesn't even allow the real Firefox.

iOS is a very important platform for Firefox, so apples anti-competitive behavior in this regard really undermines firefox's future.

I'm very sad that this issue has not come up in all of the debate about the app store.

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Re:Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protecti... by mixmastamyk on Monday September 13, 2021 @06:36PM (#28517815)
~98% of Androids use the default browser, which is an incredible amount of people, like in the billions. We tend to forget iOS is a minority worldwide.
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Re:Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protecti... by tomComb on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:07PM (#28518946)
But Mozilla is big in the same markets where iOS is big.
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Re:Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protecti... by dralley on Monday September 13, 2021 @06:38PM (#28517823)
>Not sure you can really blame android, when Android allows Firefox as a first class replacement for Chrome

It's still the default, and defaults matter.

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Re:Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protecti... by tomComb on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:09PM (#28518965)
Not sure it's reasonable to ask a for-profit company to do more than make it easily and fully changeable. Neither Microsoft nor Apple come close to that.
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Re:Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protecti... by fomine3 on Monday September 13, 2021 @11:50PM (#28520007)
It was a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu
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