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[โ€“] wesley@yall.theatl.social 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure you can install Firefox on those too can't you?

[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Looks like you can, but if you have an older Chromebook (which most schools definitely have), it takes more work than I think a lot of people would be willing to do.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/chromebook/

Also, at least in the case of my daughter's school Chromebook, the Play Store was disabled.