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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by pDiddlyDoRight on Sunday April 03, 2022 @10:48AM (#30897320)
I haven't taken the chance to dig into Win11 to know, but before Edge? Internet Explorer was bundled with Windows' Widget Kit. Uninstalling IE would break how applications would present to the user.

Microsoft makes very weird, deeply hurtful decisions, at a depth very few people understand.

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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by judge2020 on Sunday April 03, 2022 @11:00AM (#30897404)
> Uninstalling IE would break how applications would present to the user.

It makes sense for developers to use the native html renderer when they don’t want to have to include a big binary blob (Electron/CEF) to do so in their application.

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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by pygy_ on Sunday April 03, 2022 @11:14AM (#30897521)
The WebView API and the browser app are not the same thing.

Uninstalling the latter shouldn't touch the former, nor should it break the OS.

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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by can16358p on Sunday April 03, 2022 @11:27AM (#30897621)
Yup. At worst, the bundled browser may use the built in web renderer if applicable for whatever reason perhaps.

But it definitely shouldn't be the other way around.

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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by grishka on Sunday April 03, 2022 @02:32PM (#30899392)
Android does it the right way: the web view is a separate Chromium instance that doesn't depend on your default browser.
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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by can16358p on Sunday April 03, 2022 @06:09PM (#30901206)
Yup, I think that's what should be. Installed apps and their versions shouldn't affect system components.
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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by syshum on Sunday April 03, 2022 @11:07AM (#30897466)
Their decisions are easy to understand if you understand the motivations of the company. Which is not to please end user consumers buying retail consumer computers
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