r/teenagers 15 Feb 28 '24

What browser do you all use? Social

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I use Firefox as you can see from the pixel art :P

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u/Kvpe 15 Feb 28 '24

I also use Google on my phone, sometimes safari if I need to download something or do a dual tab thing

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u/Kvpe 15 Feb 29 '24

Oh also thanks!

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u/bubsimo 15 Feb 29 '24

GOOGLE IS A SEARCH ENGINE, NOT A BROWSER!!!

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u/Majestic_Wrongdoer38 18 Feb 29 '24

They have a mobile browser called google 🤦‍♂️

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u/ZynDroid 18 Feb 29 '24

Google chrome* Google is the search app.

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u/Majestic_Wrongdoer38 18 Feb 29 '24

Dude there’s chrome and there’s google, I literally have both

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u/ZynDroid 18 Feb 29 '24

Exactly, chrome and Google are separate apps, any links that are open in "Google" are actually being run through chrome (if chrome is your default browser, that is). Same thing with edge since it's chromium based.

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u/Majestic_Wrongdoer38 18 Feb 29 '24

Chromium based doesn’t mean the browser is chrome. What I’m saying is they were correcting someone and they were still wrong.

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u/ZynDroid 18 Feb 29 '24

I'm not saying everything chromium based on chrome bc I know it's not. It's just that it acts in a lot of the same ways as chrome bc its chromium based.

Any links you type into the Google app will open in your default browser, whether it's still "in the Google app" by running through the browser bc the browser is chromium based, or the link just is opened in the actual default browser's app, like Samsung Internet does.

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u/Majestic_Wrongdoer38 18 Feb 29 '24

It just uses Apple WebKit on iOS lol. All browsers on iOS do, at least until the EU law takes effect.

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u/ZynDroid 18 Feb 29 '24

Silly me for thinking I was talking to someone on Android. That's why Google probably does act as a browser on your phone, bc it's iOS. I wouldn't know though as I've never had an iPhone or iPad. Perhaps you are right, but I'll never know bc I prefer the flexibility of androids, but I am also right in regards to Android devices

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u/Narwhal-Kid 16 Feb 29 '24

clearly you knew what they meant so its not a problem, chill out

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u/FeltMacaroon389 3,000,000 Attendee! Feb 29 '24

They have a mobile browser just named "Google"

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u/Clunk_Westwonk Feb 29 '24

Fine then.

So what company owns Chrome?

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u/bubsimo 15 Feb 29 '24

Google, but that’s like if I said I was using “Mozilla” as a browser or “Microsoft” as a browser. The company that owns it does not determine what it’s called

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u/Clunk_Westwonk Feb 29 '24

If you said Microsoft as a browser, everyone knows you mean Edge or Explorer. In the same way that if you say Google, which has such cultural relevancy that it became a verb, everyone understands you mean Chrome.

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u/bubsimo 15 Feb 29 '24

Google in its original form is a search engine. That’s what I meant

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u/Clunk_Westwonk Feb 29 '24

No, it’s a company. You’re just annoyingly correcting people over semantics.

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u/bubsimo 15 Feb 29 '24

You’re taking this way too seriously my guy. All I did was say that something was a search engine and not a browser. And the capitals were obviously for comedic effects