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.

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      I learned the other day that macOS cannot turn mouse acceleration off without going into the terminal, but apparently macOS is user friendly and desktop linux is “only for developers”.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCdcuJZux_g

      And this is only the usability of a mac. On iPhone the usability is worse. One example, the quick action and notification shade are shown when you pull down from different side of the notch. My wife have used her iPhone 11 for many years, but still cannot remember which side is which.

      My friend just has a virtual home button floating at all times, because this is easier than remembering which side gives you quick actions… LOL.

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      Am more surprised you expected this to be a thing. When it comes to Apple users choice is always what Apple chooses. Otherwise they might hurt themselves.

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        Everything I’ve ever used gave me a choice, so I just assumed it was universal. Now I know.

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        Haven’t used an apple device personally. I remember struggling when I was trying to copy a file from a friends iphone. Everything was so different.

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        I remember a long time ago, I worked with a lot of apple users and one had come to look at my unix machine. It had a then standard 3 button mouse which he found amazing. So I explained the whole copy and paste in X11 thing, and all the stuff you could do with several buttons depending on where you clicked.

        He said that it was great but he regularly managed to miss the mouse button on his Mac so it probably wasn’t for him.

        And I suppose that’s why apple does things that way.

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      I have iOS 15.4 and I have a default browser that isn’t Safari. This is more in reference to a new popup on first time bootup that asks you to pick a browser. You could pick a default one before this, you just had to go download it first like on a computer.

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      Historically, if you used a browser other than Safari, it was required to just be the UI, the renderer still has to be Safari.