The mess that is 'default browser'

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2021 at 10:50:12AM -0800, rikona wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Nov 2021 17:36:31 +0800
> Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 07/11/2021, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > > I have recently changed from Firefox to Opera on one of my systems.
> > > So I told Opera to set itself as the default browser, hmmmm!
> > >  
> > 
> > Just out of interest, you do realise that Opera is now owned (and
> > controlled?) by China, don't you?
> > 
> > Some years ago, the Norwegian Opera company/organisation sold Opera
> > to China.
> > 
> > Thence, I stopped using Opera. 
> 
> So did I. Used Opera for a long time - was a VERY nice browser. Moved to
> Firefox, is OK. Now using FF, Vivaldi, Safari, Waterfox. Folks digging a
> bit deeper think Brave is perhaps the most private of the many Chrome
> knockoffs, so I use that a lot. Use Konq and others once in a while.
> 
While I like to preserve my privacy I'm not paranoid about it.  I
hardly use Google at all, I use DuckDuckGo as my search engine, I
don't use Gmail I don't use Google Calendar, etc.  I have an Android
phone but I stay logged out of the associated Google account except
for my very occasional use of the Play Store.

If some company wants to track what I buy then they won't find it very
exciting, it's mostly nuts and bolts and electrical components.

Oh, I don't use Facebook or Twitter either.

Seeing "Now using FF, Vivaldi, Safari, Waterfox..." I wonder how you
manage using different browsers.  I have enough 'invested' in my
browser in the way of bookmarks and scripts that call the browser and
so on that I need to use only one most of the time.

-- 
Chris Green