About the browser choice screen in the EU

Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by 2Gkashmiri on Friday August 23, 2024 @01:11AM (#41326346)

https://developer.apple.com/support/browser-choice-screen/#a...

why is firefox ranked so low in popularity to other essentially wrappers of safari?

marketing perhaps?

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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by Do123 on Friday August 23, 2024 @03:16AM (#41326788)

They are listed alphabetically.

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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by 2Gkashmiri on Friday August 23, 2024 @03:41AM (#41326942)

apologies

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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by s_dev on Friday August 23, 2024 @06:09AM (#41327698)

They aren't in alphabetical order. Simply looking at the list will confirm that.

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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by philippgitpush on Friday August 23, 2024 @06:30AM (#41327788)

Do123 was not referring to the screenshots, but to the lists below, which are in alphabetical order, while the screenshots aren't.

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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by rlv-dan on Friday August 23, 2024 @05:44AM (#41327572)

I remember hearing that the band "A" took their name so that they would be put first the record shops.

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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by markovs_gun on Friday August 23, 2024 @06:20AM (#41327739)

Amazon and Apple both picked their names to show up early on in lists, and anyone who remembers the phone book days remembers all sorts of plumbers with names like "AAA plumbing"

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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by Symbiote on Friday August 23, 2024 @07:57AM (#41328182)

The British company Acorn Computers picked their name to appear even earlier in the alphabet. Acer of Taiwan beat that, is there any company earlier than Acer?

(Acorn was the original "A" in ARM, the Acorn Risc Machine.)

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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by NikkiA on Saturday August 24, 2024 @03:52PM (#41340973)

There have been thousands of 'Aardvark Computers' around the world, but afaik they have all been support/service companies rather than manufacturers.

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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by kwanbix on Friday August 23, 2024 @05:46AM (#41327587)

Ecosia, Brave, Edge, You.com, Chrome, Firefox, DuckDuckGo, Qwant.

They are not list alphabetically, but randomly.

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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by Etheryte on Friday August 23, 2024 @05:53AM (#41327618)

It would be pretty funny if Apple switched this to sorted alphabetically by provider name and then Apple's Safari would be on top.

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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by DiscourseFan on Friday August 23, 2024 @06:25AM (#41327763)

"funny"

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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by elashri on Friday August 23, 2024 @05:09AM (#41327381)

> on a user’s device browsers will be shown in a randomized order per user

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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by philippgitpush on Friday August 23, 2024 @06:28AM (#41327777)

Your wording gives the impression that you are implying that Firefox is different. clarifying for anyone who doesn't know: Firefox on iOS is just another Safari wrapper, just like the others.

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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by moffkalast on Friday August 23, 2024 @06:31AM (#41327797)

I think the simplest explanation is that people like to stick to what they use on desktop. Firefox has a 6% market share there so it makes sense it would also be lower on mobile.

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Re:About the browser choice screen in the EU by malermeister on Friday August 23, 2024 @07:09AM (#41327959)

For now. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882872

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