The mess that is 'default browser'

[rikona]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 08:59:17 +0000
Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> 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.

I do many different things in parallel, and usually have 100+ pages
open at one time [around 200 open now :-) ] - way too many for a single
browser. Browser A may be mostly for topic A, B for B, and so on, then
bookmarks still track topics fairly well. Also, most research browsing
is to a 'new' site, not bookmarked. I'd guess this is a bit different
than the way most folks work.