TL;DR
- Browsers like Chrome regularly employ tactics to reduce user turnover, including setting the browser as your default.
- Chrome Canary has recently started testing a new onboarding screen that not only offers to set your default browser, but also pins Chrome to the taskbar.
Some battles just never end. Here in 2026, the cola wars may have lost a lot steam, but that rivalry continues. The war on drugs still chugs along, despite its utter senselessness. And while it’s much less heated these days than it was twenty-some years ago, the browser wars are still being fought. This week we’re checking out one of Google’s latest Chrome Canary releases, where the browser is trying out a new trick to give it a little edge.
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