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Firefox is great on Mac too. You have a point about iPhones, though. It's almost pointless, but not quite: it does get a few features, like cross-platform sync
by nfriedly 1y ago
Firefox is great on Mac too.
You have a point about iPhones, though. It's almost pointless, but not quite: it does get a few features, like cross-platform sync. "Real" Firefox is one of the things that keeps me on Android.
- galangalalgol 1y agoCan you still get real Firefox on mac? I thought they forced chromium on there now too? The only time I got MacBook I put linux on it within a few months.
- tmnvix 1y ago> Can you still get real Firefox on mac? I have always been able to.
- MangoToupe 1y agoYou can use whatever you want on macos
- pdpi 1y agoI assume that, by Chromium, you mean WebKit. At any rate, how or why would they have blocked Firefox on a machine where you can compile your own code?
- SllX 1y agoSo a couple of things. 1) Apple would never force "Chromium" on any of their platforms. You might be mistaking it for WebKit, but browsers are not required to use Apple's shipping version of WebKit on a Mac either. 2) Firefox on every single platform not on the iPhone & iPad uses and has always used Gecko. I'm not aware of any other exceptions besides those two platforms, but the Mac definitely isn't one of them.
- nicoburns 1y agomacOS isn't locked down like iOS. There are things like SIP which prevent some hacking/customising of the system, but: 1. These can all be disabled by advanced users (largely without consequence) 2. They dont prevent things like installing apps or even gaining root access in the first place. The very fact that you can install Linux is evidence of the different approach taken with macs (you can't easily install Linux of ios devices)
- galangalalgol 1y agoThe last macbook I owned had an Ethernet port, so I wasn't sure how much had changed in the interim. I knew that had added some lockdown and I wasn't sure how much. That seems like a reasonable compromise.
- nfriedly 1y agoYep, you can run Firefox on every Mac released for the past couple of decades. (Maybe more?) Most of them also work with Linux, although it's a little more spotty on the more recent ARM-based ones ("apple silicon"). Macs are essentially "real computers" that you can run whatever software you want on, whereas iPhones and iPads are much more locked down. (Even when they have the same CPU.)
- Sunspark 1y agoYes, and the different browsers on iOS are all actually just skins on top of Safari's WebKit.
- technofiend 1y agoI recently discovered that my jetkvm won't work on chrome, firefox or safari in macos, even after trying various workarounds to enable webrtc. The fix was to boot up Fedora in parallels and use Firefox there. In fact I'm thinking about shifting all my browsing to that combination just for further isolation.
- omnimus 1y agoI am pretty sure jetkvm works on macos browsers. We have two in office where most people have macs.
- technofiend 1y agoI wish I knew what you're doing to make to make it work.
- Melatonic 1y agoOrion browser using Firefox plugins I have found to work quite well on iOS
- pkaeding 1y agoI tried to use Orion as my daily driver on Mac OS (instead of Firefox) but I couldn't get the simplelogin extension to work (it wouldn't authenticate to my account). Also, it was slower than FF (I know, everything says that it is super fast, but that wasn't my experience). After a month or so, I gave up and switched back to FF.
- Melatonic 1y agoYeah on macOS itself I would stick to Firefox. iOS still bans any other browser engine though so Orion is my go to