Can you blame it?

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    What determines a popular browser?

    Would smaller browsers like LibreWolf make the cut? What is the prerequisite? Should every small fork of a few dozen users be shown?

    Should security patch speed and security defense be shown? What about number if CVE’s

    Which order are they shown in?

    Do they have descriptions, and how do you accurately describe the difference in web browsers in a short description?

    Should Firefox mention they’re the only non-Chromium browser engine, and should it be grouped by browser engines instead?

    Is it really diverse if they’re all just Chromium skins?

    If Firefox is going to be buried at the bottom of the list, is that really as fair as the first one in the list?

    What about if they unfairly resize their Edge browser as half the screen and preselect it as a default, while making the alternatives smaller and harder to see at a glance for people that just want to go quickly through the options.

    How do you accurately describe what the browser defines “private” as?

    At what point is the user too informed or too little informed? You don’t want to information overload.

    This is why it’s more complicated then just “show every popular browser”.

    • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org
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      1 year ago

      There’s not really much here that isn’t pretty easily solved. Alphabetical order, descriptions yes, written by each vendor. Yes Firefox would be required to be listed since it’s one of the handful not based on chromium. Design literally is just solving these exact kinds of problems and it happens every day, no need to make it a harder problem than it is.

    • Ravi@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      All of that points are valid questions to be solved for an implementation. I want to add another one: Which part of the users profit from this?

      Most users don’t give a fuck which browser they use as long as it’s working. They cannot comprehend most information you described in your questions and want a simple solution. The other part of users usually knows how to install and select a browser of their choice on a PC. After all it’s not that hard with the current OS choices available anyway.