Firefox saw an increase in users following Apple’s default browser changes in the EU.
www.theverge.com
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.

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.

  • MeanEYE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    8 months ago

    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.

    • systemglitch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      8 months ago

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

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      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.