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As much as you and I may care about that, for many (most?) people the browser chrome is the most important part. Syncing bookmarks, UI, tab handling etc tend t
by slipheen 6y ago
As much as you and I may care about that, for many (most?) people the browser chrome is the most important part.
Syncing bookmarks, UI, tab handling etc tend to be bigger pain points for individuals, as opposed to the more dev-focused aspects such as supporting a certain API in Javascript.
- izacus 6y ago> As much as you and I may care about that, for many (most?) people the browser chrome is the most important part. Except that for many/most people it's equally important to have a market choice which drives product improvements by competition. Not being able to choose a fully opensource browser engine (not even Firefox!) on iOS is a severe blow to opensource as a whole and browser engine competition in general. It's way worse than it ever was in times of IE6 - you never needed Microsoft's private signing keys to switch to Firefox or Chrome.
- bad_user 6y agoIf you're technologically illiterate, this might be true. Witness however Firefox for Android (vs iOS), the most important differences for me being: - Extensions support, so uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, the best ad-blocking combination that far surpasses Safari's content blockers, which are pretty shitty; and extensions are useful for more than ad-blocking — e.g. I have another one on my tablet that turns all web pages to dark mode, whether they support it or not - Web push notifications - (Up until very recently) webp format support On Android I wouldn't even install many apps, like Facebook, or Twitter, or Fastmail, I'd simply use them as PWAs (web apps), in Firefox with ads blocking on, because I could. I still use Firefox on iOS for the history / bookmarks syncing, but it's a shadow of actual Firefox.