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Question to downvotes: I’ve seen people saying in these comments often that you have to use safari. I am using ff on my iOS device right now, what am I missing
by cartoonworld 5y ago
Question to downvotes:
I’ve seen people saying in these comments often that you have to use safari. I am using ff on my iOS device right now, what am I missing?
- fingerlocks 5y agoThe technical reason is that a very powerful system call is blocked on iOS that’s required to build a custom language runtime needed for a browser. This is done to increase security of the device. The trade-off is that the JavaScript engine and renderer must be shared by all browsers on iOS. But if you can’t tell the difference, does it really matter?
- cartoonworld 5y agoThanks, appreciated greatly
- commoner 5y agoiOS platform restrictions prevent Firefox for iOS from supporting add-ons. That is a rather striking difference.
- ohazi 5y ago> But if you can’t tell the difference, does it really matter? Firefox on Android supports add-ons, in particular uBlock origin. Firefox on iOS does not. That's a huge difference.
- hortense 5y agoIn general, WebKit has more bugs and fewer features than gecko.