The Chrome team says they’re not going to pursue Web Integrity but…

it is piloting a new Android WebView Media Integrity API that’s “narrowly scoped, and only targets WebViews embedded in apps.”

They say its because the team “heard your feedback.” I’m sure that’s true, and I can wildly speculate that all the current anti-trust attention was a factor too.

  • @[email protected]
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    131 year ago

    Dunno if this is what you mean, but you can definitely set another browser as default. Any context menus will change too: “Open with Firefox”, or w/e you’re using.

    • Calavera
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      31 year ago

      No, I’m not talking about default browser but the WebView app. For example I’m using Voyager for Lemmy, and if I click on this post’s link it will open the website in the WebView, then I can click to Open with firefox.

      But WebView itself is still chrome as you can see

      • Possibly linux
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        51 year ago

        You must be on stock android. I think you can still swap out the webview component but I forgot how

      • @aeharding
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        41 year ago

        You can customize Voyager to open links in default browser not in-app: Settings -> General -> Open Links in

          • @aeharding
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            11 year ago

            It’s only available if you are using the native app. The PWA doesn’t have that option due to web limitations unfortunately.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Ohhhh I see. Yeah, I think Sync uses Chrome too. Sync has an option to always open links in external web browser, so that’s how I got around that.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        It’s even crazier than that. On some versions of Android there is no webview, only chrome! I think that was around Android 8 or so they dropped webview then re-added webview in the next version