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https://developer.apple.com/support/browser-choice-screen/#a...

why is firefox ranked so low in popularity to other essentially wrappers of safari?

marketing perhaps?

Your wording gives the impression that you are implying that Firefox is different. clarifying for anyone who doesn't know: Firefox on iOS is just another Safari wrapper, just like the others.

I think the simplest explanation is that people like to stick to what they use on desktop. Firefox has a 6% market share there so it makes sense it would also be lower on mobile.

For now. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882872

> on a user’s device browsers will be shown in a randomized order per user

They are listed alphabetically.

apologies

They aren't in alphabetical order. Simply looking at the list will confirm that.

Do123 was not referring to the screenshots, but to the lists below, which are in alphabetical order, while the screenshots aren't.

I remember hearing that the band "A" took their name so that they would be put first the record shops.

Amazon and Apple both picked their names to show up early on in lists, and anyone who remembers the phone book days remembers all sorts of plumbers with names like "AAA plumbing"

The British company Acorn Computers picked their name to appear even earlier in the alphabet. Acer of Taiwan beat that, is there any company earlier than Acer?

(Acorn was the original "A" in ARM, the Acorn Risc Machine.)

There have been thousands of 'Aardvark Computers' around the world, but afaik they have all been support/service companies rather than manufacturers.

Ecosia, Brave, Edge, You.com, Chrome, Firefox, DuckDuckGo, Qwant.

They are not list alphabetically, but randomly.

It would be pretty funny if Apple switched this to sorted alphabetically by provider name and then Apple's Safari would be on top.

"funny"

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