Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to use default browsers

Re:Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to... by aeharding on Friday September 23, 2022 @11:09PM (#32959411)

Ugh, Apple is guilty of this too in spotlight search. Actually worse, because it randomly changes after maybe 500ms, randomly, after typing a character, sometimes.

  N    -> OneNote.app
       -> Then (maybe) quickly changes to Notes
  No   -> Notes.app
       -> Then (maybe) changes to OneNote
  Not  -> OneNote.app
  Note -> Notes.app

etc

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Re:Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to... by climb_stealth on Saturday September 24, 2022 @04:23AM (#32960710)

I'd say the way around it is to install Alfred [0] and be done with it. Just have to disable the web search option. Because no, I did not want to open a browser and search for "norepad", I just fat fingered it. Luckily once disabled it works just right.

[0] https://www.alfredapp.com/

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Re:Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to... by dmitriid on Saturday September 24, 2022 @03:54AM (#32960568)

That one is at least malleable. Suffer through invalid suggestions, wait, select the one you need, and after 10 or so attempts it finally learns that you always want that particular app as your first choice.

At least that's how it was before. I wouldn't be surprised if they broke it.

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Re:Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to... by ayewo on Saturday September 24, 2022 @05:59AM (#32961154)

There's also Raycast [1], which is a f-r-e-e VC-funded alternative to Alfred that was mentioned by a sibling comment.

1: https://www.raycast.com/

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