Chrome Shouldn’t Be Forced As Default Browser On Android: Perplexity CEO After 'Comet' Launch (Photo on X@AravSrinivas)
After launching Comet, an AI powered browser, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on Thursday, July 10, criticised Android device’s long-standing practice of defaulting to Google Chrome.
In a social media post, Srivivasan said that Chrome shouldn’t be forced as default browser on android. He then sought that users should be asked to choose their default browser during onboarding on Android. He also shared a model format for users to select their desired browsers. Users should have the freedom at the first place to select alternatives such as Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Brave, and Comet, the browser that his company introduced recently. Google has long been accused of using its control over Android to push its own ecosystem.
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On Wednesday, July 9, Srinivas announced that his company, Perplexity, finally releases its next big product Comet. “Comet is a browser that’s designed to be a thought partner and assistant for every aspect of your digital life: work and personal,” he wrote on X.
According to Perplexity, Comet transforms any webpage into a portal of curiosity, and provide instant explanations. Users can explore tangential ideas without losing your original context, and ask specialised questions or broad ones, the company claims. “Comet understands that genuine curiosity doesn’t follow predetermined paths,” it adds.
Users should be asked to select their default browser during onboarding on Android. Something like this. pic.twitter.com/ry80rXVZ4F
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) July 10, 2025
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Users can rely on Comet for special tasks, resolve queries among others as the browser comes with agentic capabilities. People can also user the AI powered browser to summarise, translate, or take follow-up actions. The company claims its new search browser would take over the Google Search dominance, though it is still in the development phase.
Comet fuses search and browsing into a single, conversational experience, conceptualising that the search browser should be more like an assistant than a list of links.
