The browser wars that started on iOS (forcing Safari) and Android (forcing Chrome) now are continued on Windows 11 (forcing Edge)
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/05
- iOS has forced Safari to be the only web browser since forever, so Google started to use the
googlechrome:scheme to force Chrome as browser on it a while ago - Android has forced Chrome to be the only Web View since forever, but application specific URI prefixes can launch specific browsers and are heavily used (see for instance [Wayback/Archive.is] android – Launching an App from a URL – Stack Overflow where the answer explains how to route the
example:scheme to an application) - Windows 11 now uses the
microsoft-edge:scheme even more than Windows 10 to force URIs to open in Edge, and some browsers are now working around this
Via:
- [Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “The browser wars that started on iOS (forcing Safari) and Android (forcing Chrome) now are continued on Windows 11 (forcing Edge): … “
- [Wayback/Archive.is] Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge
- Implement
microsoft-edge:protocol handler, issue #1726697, , Masatoshi Kimura, Firefox project, Bugzilla, Mozilla - When Brave handles
microsoft-edge:protocol searches use user’s default search instead of Bing, issue #17684, , Brian Clifton, Brave browser project, Brave Software, GitHub - Allow Brave to Handle Searches from Windows Shell and Cortana, issue #13875, , Brave browser project, Brave Software, GitHub
microsoft_edge_protocol_util.cc, commit a80e1ea7b6, , Simon Hong, Brave Core project, Brave Software, GitHub- Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows, , Tom Warren, The Verge, Vox Media
- Microsoft is making it harder to switch default browsers in Windows 11, , Tom Warren, The Verge, Vox Media
- Opening links in Chrome for iOS, , Mobile Chrome, Documentation, Chrome Developers, Google
- Implement
- [Wayback/Archive.is] Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge
- [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “… Niemand will Edge, außer Microsoft, also fangen die Browserkriege wieder an. Juhu, wie ich es vermisst habe.”
- [Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Regardless if you like Edge or not (there are pros and cons to both), I dislike this kind of browser war as the OS and apps should be fully configurable as to which browser is used (Android WebView is still Chrome and I dislike that too).… “
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