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submitted 2 years ago by Vincent@kbin.social to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

What if we got to easily choose our web browser, and didn’t have to rely on complex operating system settings to change the pre-installed default?

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[-] ram@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

So I'm just thinking about how this would work, in a perfectly non-competitive world:

There'd need to be some Browser Standards Association to implement and suggest browsers to add to a list of "certified browsers", with transparent requirements to be included to ensure low quality or outdated browsers aren't included. The OS would need to implement that entire list in a randomized format. There'd preferably be some sort of built-in pros/cons list of the browser, I suppose these could be put together by a combination of the BSA and the competing browsers.
But these pros/cons won't be understandable or significant to 95% of people.

The BSA would also want to ensure there's diversity not just in browser and companies (like Opera getting 3 fucking entries), but would also want to ensure there's a variety of browser engines (preferably not just chromium and webkit).

[-] parrot-party@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Even having an opinionated choice would be better than what we currently have.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

BrowserChoice 's criteria was also OKish though nowadays it would be just reskinned blink and Firefox.

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