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The browser I use on Android (Fennec F-Droid) just switched my default search engine back to Goggle, and what's worse, completely removed Mojeek and Brave as search options. This is an anti-feature!
It would be great if F-Droid builds of Android browsers stripped out the code that pulls dick moves like this.
#search#SearchEngines#Android#WebBrowser#FDroid#FennecFDroid
FYI the other thing that Fennec @fdroidorg always does when it updates is nuke my PWAs. Would be great to get this fixed too in future builds.
I only noticed the gaps on my homescreen this morning, and it took me a minute to figure out what was missing : P
That's the question the linked issue discussion is investigating.
You can fix it by manually, by adding search options you want, and changing your default back to your preferred one. These are the generic instructions for FireFox, which ought to work;
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-your-default-search-settings-firefox
Let me know if you have any trouble.
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@Sunny
> Couldn't delete google & co
That's the bit we need the F-Droid folks to find a way to fix, and roll out an update. Hopefully someone will be testing for this kind of enshittification before pushing future updates.
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Mozilla really has gone downhill. I'm hopeful that a whole new class of social browser is on the horizon, not controlled by DataFarmers like Goggle, grApple or BorgSoft, or indirectly by them, like Mozilla. See my recent posts quoting @robin Berjon's blog posts sketching out the future of the web.
Thanks for the headsup @fdroidorg. I have reported by experiences there, and I'll keep an eye on the discussion.
FYI anyone who noticed their default search engine switch to Goggle with the latest update of Fennec F-Droid (or didn't);
@fdroidorg
> We are tracking it in
https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild/-/issues/120
This also happened to me changing duckduckgo search back to google.
It didn't happen with Firefox so there is a bug somewhere. It might be interesting for someone to track this down. I doubt it was intentional, but could lead to finding other unexpected behavior.
My understanding is Fennec is a pure rebuild of Firefox without the firefox branding. There are other browsers available that make various changes to Firefox behavior. Fennec is not one of those.
#search#SearchEngines#Android#WebBrowser#FDroid#FennecFDroid
Any of those available in F-Droid? AFAIK other than Fennec, all the web browsers available there are wrappers around the Chrome WebView built into Android.
One outcome of the 2001 antitrust case against BorgSoft was to stop them making all web browsing on Windows depend on Internet Exploiter. The Safari WebView on iThings does *exactly* what BorgSoft were forbidden from doing.
I'm guessing Goggle use various backhanded tricks to push app devs into using the Chrome WebView on Android. We're certainly at risk of future enshittification making it compulsory there too.
#AntiMonopoly prosecutors take note.
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