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This is useful to use as your default browser. It has a quick way to open the same link in another browser, so you can use it as a sort of quarantine to vet unk

This is useful to use as your default browser. It has a quick way to open the same link in another browser, so you can use it as a sort of quarantine to vet unknown links before exposing your main browser and all its juicy user data to a new website.

apeace 9y ago
If only it were possible to set a default browser on iOS.
- gardnr 9y ago
  Wasn't there a huge anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft for preventing other browsers on their platform? How does Apple get away with it when MS couldn't?
  - teddyfrozevelt 9y ago
    Probably a mix of Apple not having a monopoly in the mobile space and other browsers till being allowed on the app store.
    - eli 9y ago
      Allowing other browsers to be installed didn't stop Microsoft from losing an anti-trust suit.
    - gardnr 9y ago
      I am not up to date. I didn't realize they allow other browsers now. When I was building iOS apps Apple had specific wording which prevented apps in the app store which duplicated functionality already available in iOS. That meant things like the AdBlock Firefox build could not be published in the App Store. It was, in great part, their legal team and strategy that pushed me away from Apple.
      - jeroenhd 9y ago
        Apple still doesn't allow true browsers in the app store. Not because they disallow duplicate system applications (plenty of calculator apps out there). The problem is that Apple does not allow any developer to use a browser engine other than built-in Safari. Apple also doesn't allow virtual machines/on the fly compilation of code, making any alternate, fast enough Javascript engine practically impossible. "Browsers" on iOS, such as Firefox Focus and Chrome, just repurpose the built-in Safari engine with some modifications (bookmark sync, extra content blocking, etc.)
  - rcthompson 9y ago
    I think the simplest answer is that no one has sued them for it yet.
gcb0 9y ago
or just install Firefox with noScript. (until we get umatrix to work on fennec) remove the rule that allows script from the original domain. done. now all sites will be quarantine, until you white list them.

apeace 9y ago

If only it were possible to set a default browser on iOS.

gardnr 9y ago
Wasn't there a huge anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft for preventing other browsers on their platform? How does Apple get away with it when MS couldn't?
- teddyfrozevelt 9y ago
  Probably a mix of Apple not having a monopoly in the mobile space and other browsers till being allowed on the app store.
  - eli 9y ago
    Allowing other browsers to be installed didn't stop Microsoft from losing an anti-trust suit.
  - gardnr 9y ago
    I am not up to date. I didn't realize they allow other browsers now. When I was building iOS apps Apple had specific wording which prevented apps in the app store which duplicated functionality already available in iOS. That meant things like the AdBlock Firefox build could not be published in the App Store. It was, in great part, their legal team and strategy that pushed me away from Apple.
    - jeroenhd 9y ago
      Apple still doesn't allow true browsers in the app store. Not because they disallow duplicate system applications (plenty of calculator apps out there). The problem is that Apple does not allow any developer to use a browser engine other than built-in Safari. Apple also doesn't allow virtual machines/on the fly compilation of code, making any alternate, fast enough Javascript engine practically impossible. "Browsers" on iOS, such as Firefox Focus and Chrome, just repurpose the built-in Safari engine with some modifications (bookmark sync, extra content blocking, etc.)
- rcthompson 9y ago
  I think the simplest answer is that no one has sued them for it yet.

gcb0 9y ago

or just install Firefox with noScript. (until we get umatrix to work on fennec) remove the rule that allows script from the original domain. done. now all sites will be quarantine, until you white list them.