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[justeleblanc]

Try to uninstall Safari from Mac OS or iOS, or Chrome from Android. Tell me how that works out for you.

[testTED → justeleblanc]

Google* Android

[Gigachad → testTED]

Android always has a browser you can’t remove. It’s just not always chrome.

[testTED → Gigachad]

The OS needs a browser engine for its WebView, which many apps etc rely on.

On non Google Android releases these can pretty easily be swapped.

Possibly on Google Android as well.

[Gigachad → testTED]

The out of the box experience with Android is that you can not replace the OS browser.

The fact that you can recompile AOSP to have a different browser is not particularly noteworthy, you could do that for any mandatory component.

[testTED → Gigachad]

Nobody is talking about recompiling AOSP.

It's a popup dialog.

[skinnymuch → testTED]

People are talking about no browser. Not swapping them

[testTED → skinnymuch]

Yes, I understand.

I'm explaining that you need a WebView for basic functionality of many apps.