Comment by B1FIDO
6 hours ago
No, that is not how you change search engines.
In Chrome on Android (and yeah, on desktop too) you just go into "Settings" and change your default search engine. I can choose between Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Yandex, or DuckDuckGo.
There are also custom searches through Wikipedia and other resources. You can use little shortcuts to get to almost any custom search you set up in advance.
This has been configurable by the user for a long, long, long time. This is not a surprise or a concession. This is built-in stuff by Google for Chrome. (Edge too, of course.)
Changing your browser, you can do, but it won't be comfortable. I have Edge installed on my Android, but it is not possible to run natively on Chromebook and the Android emulation is bad. I will not set Edge to my Default Browser because it messes things up. It is not a great experience to change your Default Browser on Android. I just go with Chrome and use Edge for specific tasks and topics.
You can set up all kinds of email services in the Gmail app, or you can install a native app. I use Outlook in both of those ways, and it's fine.
I've been using Edge on Android for a while now with 0 issues, switched because chrome was frequently crashing.
I think your issue is trying to switch off of Chrome while using a Chromebook.
> It is not a great experience to change your Default Browser on Android
It actually is, it just sounds more like it's Edge that isn't a great experience.
I've had Vivaldi as default for awhile now and it's great, everything is as seamless as using Chrome.
> No, that is not how you change search engines.
See it from the perspective of a non-technical user:
1. I install the Yahoo Search app
2. When I want to search I poke the Yahoo icon on my home screen.
Or:
1. I open my browser.
2. I poke Yahoo on the grid of suggested sites.
Sure, there's more than one way to skin a cat.
There are lots of non-technical users who navigate purely by doing a "google search" on whatever domain they're aiming for, too. Nobody said they were efficient about it.