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If other browser engines can be allowed, then Mozilla can port Gecko to iOS. Firefox Browser iOS is currently using WebKit.
by Apocryphon 5y ago
If other browser engines can be allowed, then Mozilla can port Gecko to iOS. Firefox Browser iOS is currently using WebKit.
- olliej 5y agoYou're missing the point: for better or worse, "Safari only" on iOS is probably the only thing causing any significant friction for "this site only works in chrome". Sites already routinely require chrome on desktop. Remove Safari on iOS and ask yourself: will more sites support non-chrome browsers, or will fewer?
- kitsunesoba 5y agoIt’ll be nice to have real Gecko on iOS, but it’s moot because it won’t be what’s taking marketshare from Safari/WebKit. It’ll be something Chromium/Blink based instead, most likely Chrome. Even now on Android Chrome is by far the dominant browser despite lacking extension capabilities (and thus, adblocking capabilities) entirely. Firefox for Android has the massive technical advantage of being able to run uBlock Origin but it doesn’t make much of a difference. Users will go where developers and heavyhanded marketing (as Google has been notorious for with Chrome) push them.