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The article shows that it takes 15 clicks to install a browser, pin it to the home screen and make it the default, and claims - without evidence - that changing
by amadeuspagel 6y ago
The article shows that it takes 15 clicks to install a browser, pin it to the home screen and make it the default, and claims - without evidence - that changing the default search engine is just as hard.
- dafoex 6y agoThey actually provide instructions to change the search widget - i.e. the bar at the top of the screen - along with changing the browser. And honestly, I agree with them. I'd very much like a way to integrate my chosen search engine into the Android search subsystem. I actually seem to recall this being possible on older versions of Android, where the default search widget would allow the user to pick a search "lens", say Files, Music, or eMail for example, alongside that of Google Search.
- Eupolemos 6y agoYou're not wrong, but... I just got a new phone - getting FF as the default and setting DDG as the default search engine had me messing around trying out all kinds of different settings and places to change stuff. It was frustrating. So I think there are two issues here; the shortest path and the "I do this once every 2 years" path. You know, kinda like a perceived loading time.