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Are embedded browsers not usually just the system webview?

• MereInterest 6y ago
  They might hide the URL, so I can't see where the link led me. Or they might disable the usual browser menu, preventing me from bookmarking a page. Or they might have the "close tab" interaction be in a completely different location, breaking any muscle memory. If I'm following an HTTP(S) link, it means that I want to view it in a browser. I don't want to have some in-app view that can only return me to gmail, or to discord, or to google handouts, just because that happened to be where I clicked the link from. I don't care in the slightest whether the rendering engine is the same as the default browser. I care whether the user interactions are the same.
• swiftcoder 6y ago
  On iOS, yes, since Apple's rules forbid alternate browser engines. On Android, it's not unknown for apps to embed an alternate browser engine in it's entirely.
  • Kudos 6y ago
    It's extremely uncommon though, pretty sure nothing I've installed does it.
• canofbars 6y ago
  Yes but how would you even know as a user. Or how would you know that you are on the real google page.