• Voyajer@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’ve been using Firefox on my android phones for years though, I don’t remember it ever being more involved then setting it as default on the popup on first launch.

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      4 months ago

      Android is a fenced garden compared to the fortress that is iOS.

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      4 months ago

      I have been using Firefox as the default browser on my iPhone for a while now. It wasn’t complicated to setup either.

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        4 months ago

        Same here but it’s not Firefox with its own Engine, it’s a Firefox frontend for WebKit with some of Apple’s restriction.

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      4 months ago

      There are a bunch of apps that strictly require Chrome for their in-app custom tabs, though. I have to re-install Chrome on occasion because I can’t log into apps without it. Also, having Chrome installed at all makes it impossible to NOT set a default browser (i.e. to have it ask every time), which is what I prefer since I use several different browsers for different use cases. (Note: this is on Pixel. Never had that problem on my older phones.)

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        4 months ago

        While we can, we should reject those sites and program them to the standards.
        Including that some features are optional.

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        4 months ago

        I have Firefox set up and never was the in-app browser firefox

        How I know? I have dark reader active on those pages and usually websites don’t reflect system primary settings.

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          4 months ago

          I think it used to be possible to set your default “custom tabs” browser as well, but I don’t think it is anymore. I’m not totally sure though.

          I don’t know why these apps use custom tabs in the first place. It’s always struck me as a solution in search of a problem.