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Re:Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer from You... by testTED on Monday February 20, 2023 @03:55PM (#34872779)
The OS needs a browser engine for its WebView, which many apps etc rely on.

On non Google Android releases these can pretty easily be swapped.

Possibly on Google Android as well.

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Re:Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer from You... by skinnymuch on Monday February 20, 2023 @04:12PM (#34872974)
People are talking about no browser. Not swapping them
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Re:Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer from You... by testTED on Monday February 20, 2023 @05:54PM (#34874011)
Yes, I understand.

I'm explaining that you need a WebView for basic functionality of many apps.

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Re:Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer from You... by Gigachad on Monday February 20, 2023 @05:30PM (#34873828)
The out of the box experience with Android is that you can not replace the OS browser.

The fact that you can recompile AOSP to have a different browser is not particularly noteworthy, you could do that for any mandatory component.

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Re:Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer from You... by testTED on Monday February 20, 2023 @05:55PM (#34874020)
Nobody is talking about recompiling AOSP.

It's a popup dialog.

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