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Longtime Firefox and Thunderbird user. I can't speak about Apple but in my experience on Android, Windows, and Linux it is trivially easy to install Firefox and
by zugi 4y ago
Longtime Firefox and Thunderbird user. I can't speak about Apple but in my experience on Android, Windows, and Linux it is trivially easy to install Firefox and make it the default web browser. Just earlier today I was browsing HN on Android in Firefox and two articles that I opened would load and display initially, but then the page would go blank and show only white. Refreshing showed the same behavior. So I switched to browsing with the DuckDuckGo mobile browser for now.
So I was pretty frustrated to read this article. It's over-the-top self-congratulatory. Sheesh Mozilla, spend your time and money fixing and improving your product, and people will tell their friends to use it. Instead of lobbying the government based on misinformation about how hard and scary it is to make Firefox your default browser.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoThere is a good argument over the use of limited resources, but, as we likely all know from experience, best product does not always win -- the default product wins ( at least to a casual user ). I have some minor beefs with Mozilla, but not for fighting MS over defaults, because it is a bad use of those resources. Last time I checked, Win10 still has a very annoying tendency to reset defaults after update ( please correct me if I am wrong; it is possible this was finally corrected ).