Firefox spokesperson Christopher Hilton tells The Verge that the browser has seen a more than 50 percent jump in users in Germany and a nearly 30 percent increase in France.

Brave saw a similar increase in users after Apple started letting users choose their default browsers on iOS 17.4 in the EU last week.

  • @brlemworld
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    73 months ago

    Chrome isn’t necessarily the default. Samsung Browser is a thing

    • @ForgotAboutDre
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      123 months ago

      Samsung browser is just chrome in a jacket.

      The biggest threat to an free and open internet is chrome. Chromium the base of chrome is open source and used by many other browsers as the engine (and most of the features). Everything else is clothing. Chrome, edge, brave, Vivaldi etc are all chrome in a mask.

      Since chromium is developed and controlled by Google they have defacto control over how these browsers work, operate and display web content. This gives Google massive leverage in control how the web and it’s standards develop.

      There is only two other web browser. Firefox and safari. These are the only other operations cable of building and maintaing a modern web browser currently. Chrome took apples safari open source core WebKit to build chrome. They then forked it. Because Google chrome is so powerful, apple will need to follow to keep inline with Google. Google also pays them billions every year. Likewise Firefox is funded by Google through default search.

      Google is trying to control the web. Use Firefox.

    • @[email protected]
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      33 months ago

      Lol right, people use whatever they get fed. I cant believe how people use phones as products, what came with it MUST be perfect