Comment on Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM

• flamingarms@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Dunno if this is what you mean, but you can definitely set another browser as default. Any context menus will change too: “Open with Firefox”, or w/e you’re using.

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  • calavera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, I’m not talking about default browser but the WebView app. For example I’m using Voyager for Lemmy, and if I click on this post’s link it will open the website in the WebView, then I can click to Open with firefox.

    But WebView itself is still chrome as you can see

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You must be on stock android. I think you can still swap out the webview component but I forgot how

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    • aeharding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can customize Voyager to open links in default browser not in-app: Settings -> General -> Open Links in

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      • calavera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Weird, I can’t see this option

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    • flamingarms@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ohhhh I see. Yeah, I think Sync uses Chrome too. Sync has an option to always open links in external web browser, so that’s how I got around that.

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s even crazier than that. On some versions of Android there is no webview, only chrome! I think that was around Android 8 or so they dropped webview then re-added webview in the next version

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• CeeBee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve been using Firefox for a couple months now, no issues.

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• dirtbiker509@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah there is a setting and now when I click links it opens in Firefox. But if you use the Google search widget it still opens in chrome, which is to be expected I guess.

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  • calavera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s not only a problem for google search, most apps uses webview to handle web links. They can do like Voyager and have a option to open the default browser instead, but most of them don’t bother with that.

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