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0 pointsPlutoIsAPlanet2y ago0 comments

I don't really see it as prioritising your own browser.

It's a system level feature and uses the system provided web engine.

Microsoft doesn't let you swap out EdgeHTML or Trident for applications that use the native OS web frame.

But apps shouldn't be forced to use that web frame is the issue the commission had and the DMA attempts to resolve.

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> Microsoft doesn't let you swap out EdgeHTML or Trident for applications that use the native OS web frame.

I remember quite clearly a gecko (firefox) implementation of the trident COM interface

However, there wasn't a flag by Microsoft to give applications this implementation rather than the one they requested.

you mean the LocalServer32 value?

Notably, Android does let users swap out the system webview. So clearly such a thing is possible.

Yes, but Google did that so they could update the WebView via the Play Store because OEMs were slow to distribute updates.

But the system still needed a WebView for when Play Services were not available, so they made a way to toggle between them.

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