• anguo@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    There is Firefox for Android. You’re still on Android, but you can have some control left.

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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately Firefox doesn’t have a replacement for the “Android System WebView” component, so any app that embeds a browser component (and oh boy is that a lot of them) will still be using Chrome.

      There’s a relevant ticket here: https://github.com/mozilla/geckoview/issues/167

      It should be possible to have a shim that allows Mozilla’s “GeckoView” component to implement the API, but - per that ticket, at least - most Android ROMs won’t allow alternatives to the Google one.

      The Firefox browser is genuinely great, but it’s so far from possible to replace Chrome with it everywhere a browser is used.

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      1 year ago

      You can’t uninstall Chrome most likely, but maybe your stock/rom will allow you to “disable” it.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOP
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      1 year ago

      Also Firefox Focus, which forgets your browsing history when you close it or hit the trashcan button.