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No it isn't - that is a choice made by phone vendors to include it, but they are perfectly free to ship their phones with firefox, or opera, or no browser at al
by googlryas 4y ago
No it isn't - that is a choice made by phone vendors to include it, but they are perfectly free to ship their phones with firefox, or opera, or no browser at all.
The android OS has no knowledge of chrome and it doesn't get any special handling or abilities like iOS/Safari.
- pdpi 4y agoThe Android OS has no knowledge of Chrome, but AIUI the licencing for Play Services basically forces you into installing it
- jcranberry 4y agoSamsung by default has their own chromium based browser as the default.
- lkramer 4y agoI am unable to uninstall Chrome from my Android phone. That seems pretty special.