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I read "for mobile" and was hopefully this would be for iOS as well but really it's "Firefox for Android" And now all the Apple fans can tell me why it's so gr
by greggman3 6y ago
I read "for mobile" and was hopefully this would be for iOS as well but really it's "Firefox for Android"
And now all the Apple fans can tell me why it's so great that only WebKit is allowed on iOS. I'd like to run those extensions an on iOS browser and others but to do that I'd have to actually be able to ship a different browser engine.
- kdtsh 6y agoI went back to Safari on iOS. I really quite like iOS - it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but it is mine. I also quite like Firefox, and have used it since Firefox 3 (except for a few years when I bought into the Google project and used Chrome when it was shiny and new). I used the iOS Firefox app solidly for a little while - more than I year I think - but really, while WebKit is the only engine allowed on iOS, it’s just a skin on Safari with integration into your Firefox Account (which is a fantastic bit of work, but I don’t use it). Sorting tabs and bookmarks in iOS Safari is much nicer in my experience, so I eventually went back. I’ll keep using Firefox on desktop for as long as it exists, but I kind of just faced the music on Firefox for iOS.
- jorvi 6y agoI would be fine with Firefox for iOS not having access to extensions (after all, Mozilla can't help it Apple's app store policies won't allow that), but they could at least have some mercy on iOS users and just build in adblocking.. the web is borderline unusable without it.
- michaelbrooks 6y agoThis is the exact reason why I use Brave on IOS, it has built-in adblocking that works really well.