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As opposed to what? Mobile is worse, with iOS not allowing a choice at all.
by cpmsmith 6y ago
As opposed to what? Mobile is worse, with iOS not allowing a choice at all.
- gh-throw 6y agoYou can change browsers, just not browser engines. This might bother me if any other browser engines seemed to give a damn about battery life, but since they don't, it's justifiable for the reason of preventing people from "mysteriously" having terrible battery life because ads on Google properties convinced them to install Chrome, at least.
- mhh__ 6y ago> This might bother me if any other browser engines seemed to give a damn about battery life How do you know? How can you have measured it if Apple are having an ego trip and not letting them try?
- gh-throw 6y agoThe rest all demonstrably eat battery like it's free on every other platform? IDK, maybe Edge doesn't, but FF and Chrome sure do. [EDIT] Let me put it this way: I see no reason to expect the FF or Chrome engines to perform better on iOS than they do on Android, especially since that's the closest to a "home" platform that Chrome has (ChromeOS aside).
- boublepop 6y agoWhat makes you say IOS does not allow a choice? I’m writing this from Firefox on an IPhone?
- approxim8ion 6y agoiOS does not allow you to use any engine other than WebKit (Safari). Firefox, Chrome, Brave etc, whatever browser you use on iOS is a wrapper around Safari's engine.