Search engine, Kagi for parents. You can customize it to just kid friendly results for them so they never see all of the easily manipulative links out there on nearly every other search engine. Similar to the OG Google experience of the early 2000s, but way more relevant and way more helpful as a service to find anything/everything of child curiosity that’s child appropriate.
Browser doesn’t really matter much. If one isn’t using dev tools or many addons, just pick something FOSS and call it good. I love Kagi for search but candidly for non-tech people, just DDG is simple and pretty good with both results and privacy.
If your native language isn’t English (or even if you’re outside the US) I wouldn’t recommend DDG for older people. They’ll want to search in their language and most searches will be about local stuff and DDG sucks in that area. It’s my main search engine and I constantly play with the country toggle but if I want something actually local I usually end up switching to Google for this search. Just make sure to install an adblock so you avoid the “Ad” results.
I think any Foss browser might work and Google as search engine and ublock origin with this blocklist
The default one on the OS, with chrome also installed, both with uBlock origin. Keep it simple.
Getting uBlock Origin to work with Chrome requires a workaround, and that is not scheduled remain available long-term.
It seems to work in Edge, believe it or not.
Including Edge for Android, which puts it in a compelling position for certain use cases.
This is the golden answer.
Anything that strays from the defaults (especially in windows) risks getting reset during a major automatic update, and now you’re getting support calls because “the internet doesn’t work right anymore”.
I’ve never had a update change my default browser. Feels pretty low risk, especially if you get them used to clicking the specific FF icon and hide all Edge shortcuts. They’ll forget it exists quickly.
Doesn’t really matter. The true work lies in how you configure it. You can make the computer automatically open the browser and multiple tabs on startup. Move the tabs to the sidebar, so they have all the websites they want neatly organized in a list on the left side of the screen.
DuckDuckGo has a feature called bangs that redirects your searches to other search engines depending of which bang you use.
