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From wikipedia [1]: Firefox for iOS is a browser from Mozilla, for the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch mobile devices.[5] It is the first Firefox branded bro
by clon 8y ago
From wikipedia [1]:
Firefox for iOS is a browser from Mozilla, for the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch mobile devices.[5] It is the first Firefox branded browser not to use the Gecko layout engine as is used in Firefox for desktop and mobile. Due to iOS security restrictions chosen by Apple (specifically the inability to set writable pages executable, which is essential for just-in-time compilation), Firefox has to use the built-in iOS WebKit-based rendering framework instead of Gecko.
In short - no Gecko.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_for_iOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_for_iOS
- scarface74 8y agoFirefox didn’t use the Gecko engine on Android until a week ago and it’s still in beta. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/09/focus-with-geckoview/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/09/focus-with-geckoview/
- detaro 8y agoFor Firefox Focus, which is a fairly young (released last year for Android) offshot. The main Firefox for Android has been using its own engine all along.
- mr_toad 8y agoI doubt Gecko is handling the media recorder API. More likely it’s Spidermonkey on most platforms and JavaScriptCore on iOS. MediaRecorder is a working draft. Developers who use draft API and don’t even bother to test on other platforms are cowboys.
- garmaine 8y agoTIL, thank you.