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The original was posted on /r/browsers by /u/m_sniffles_esq on 2023-09-07 14:33:49.

In my travels, I’ve often heard:

I’d like to check out Ungoogled Chromium, but I’ve heard there all kinds of hoops you have to jump through in order to use extensions, and I really don’t want to deal with all of that

Now, while these ‘hoops’ aren’t much more than a ten second web search, a 60k download, and some dragging and dropping, I understand the hesitancy (especially, among those who consider themselves to be less than tech literate)

However, last night I had to set-up a couple new desktops, and upon installing Ungoogled Chromium, I noticed they’ve recently included a ‘first run’ page when you initially open the browser that walks the user through the downloading and installation of the chrome store extension. Because of this, it’s not even 8:30am, but I’ve already witnessed two self-professed ‘tech illiterates’ install various extensions, and set the browser up to their liking.

Anyway, I was unaware of this new attempt at user friendliness, think it’s a pretty great idea, and wanted to spread some awareness.