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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

To whoever mentioned Librewolf previously as a better alternative to FireFox: Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Does Firefox containers work on it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I can't see the graph in w3m.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Competition is healthy for a market, this is proof that people aren't happy with the default browser and it'll hopefully spur apple into improving their browser and in turn causing brave to improve even more

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

"brave to improve even more"? Don't you mean stop being a shitty scummy company?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I'd expect a much bigger jump

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

A choice screen is a baby step that’s not enough to level the playing field.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

it's was not hard. you just install one and tap "always" the next time you open a link to set it as the default

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Many if not most users were unaware of this possibility though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

maybe because of ios where it wasn't even possible to change the default browser until like .... 2020 i think?
and even now all browsers use webkit and are forbidden from loading their own js (aka extensions) anyway

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