Deciding for ourselves: 98% of people want a browser choice screen, Mozilla study finds | The Mozilla Blog
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What if we got to easily choose our web browser, and didn’t have to rely on complex operating system settings to change the pre-installed default? At Moz

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/firefox@lemmy.ml/t/476611

What if we got to easily choose our web browser, and didn’t have to rely on complex operating system settings to change the pre-installed default?

Do you keep the default browser on your Linux distro, or do you change it? If yes, why?

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 months ago

      Yes, the percentage is high. Most people would be annoyed to have another selection screen in the setup process.

      But I do think I saw more people using non-Google search engines since Google was forced to provide a search engine selection screen in the setup process.

      • Grangle1@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        To me it sounds like an idea most people would say is a good idea because people like choice on principle, but the vast majority of people will then just use Chrome anyway.

        • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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          9 months ago

          But at least they can decide for themselves, even if it's just because of the logo. The friction to switch the browser after the fact is way too high, especially on mobile nearly all people use the default browser.

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 months ago

      The study is also about Android. But the main reason I crossposted here is because I was curious what the opinion of this community about browser screens in the setup process is.

      Our research involved 12,000 people in Germany, Spain and Poland setting up a highly realistic virtual Windows or Android device.

      https://research.mozilla.org/browser-competition/choicescreen/

      Edit: I believe that this study is also applicable to desktop Linux users, since those are generally more tech-savy.

  • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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    9 months ago

    What percentage of users know what browser they want to use but also find the process of downloading and installing one complex?

  • FarLine99@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Firefox hardened with Betterfox, Chromium for some sites which are broken because of ad/fingerprint blocker, firefox itself.

  • Engywuck@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Better if Mozilla stop crying and unfuck their browser, instead of spending money on useless shit and offensive CEO paychecks and blaming eveyone but themselves for their failure.

  • Retiring@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    I change it, because my distro came with pale moon browser which looks like something from the early 2000s