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Is Chrome on iOS Chrome? If it is, why Firefox cannot be Firefox? Or should they ditch "Firefox" and just call everything Gecko, because you think that's the mo

Is Chrome on iOS Chrome? If it is, why Firefox cannot be Firefox? Or should they ditch "Firefox" and just call everything Gecko, because you think that's the most important?

JetSpiegel 12y ago
> Is Chrome on iOS Chrome? It's not, and just because Google also caved in to Apple's tyranny doesn't make it right for everyone to do it.
JohnTHaller 12y ago
Nope. It's a skin that can sync passwords and bookmarks to Google with some Google Chrome branding on it over Safari. Google's Blink engine, which powers Chrome on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, etc can't be used on iOS. Because Apple.
- holygoat 12y ago
  John, you really don't know what you're talking about. Give it a rest. Chrome on iOS does way more than you think it does -- e.g., it uses its own network stack.
  - JohnTHaller 12y ago
    Richard, I'm aware Chrome does some interesting backflips on iOS to attempt to get around all of Apple's anti-competitive rules. I was keeping things brief for a comment. Chrome on iOS does some rather creative things like the networking stack you mentioned. It's impressive, really. Still, the actual rendering engine bits have to be Safari. Heck, the whole reason Google built their own networking stack was because of those absurd iOS restrictions so they could implement a subset of the features that Chrome on Android has. So, the app will always be artificially hobbled because of the restrictions. And it simply can't be as fully functional as it is on other platforms due to those limitations. None of that takes away from the fact that overall it's a good thing for Firefox to be in front of iOS users. I honestly do think it is. That way, Firefox remains a viable alternative for those users in Apple-land so they can sync between Mac OS X and iOS. At the same time, I'm sad. Because a Firefox UI around the Safari rendering engine just feels wrong. It may sound silly, but it does feel like a little piece of what Firefox stands for fell with this decision. And I've been promoting Mozilla since its creation and packaging and promoting Firefox since before it hit 1.0.

Is Chrome on iOS Chrome? If it is, why Firefox cannot be Firefox? Or should they ditch "Firefox" and just call everything Gecko, because you think that's the most important?

JetSpiegel 12y ago

> Is Chrome on iOS Chrome? It's not, and just because Google also caved in to Apple's tyranny doesn't make it right for everyone to do it.

JohnTHaller 12y ago

Nope. It's a skin that can sync passwords and bookmarks to Google with some Google Chrome branding on it over Safari. Google's Blink engine, which powers Chrome on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, etc can't be used on iOS. Because Apple.

holygoat 12y ago
John, you really don't know what you're talking about. Give it a rest. Chrome on iOS does way more than you think it does -- e.g., it uses its own network stack.
- JohnTHaller 12y ago
  Richard, I'm aware Chrome does some interesting backflips on iOS to attempt to get around all of Apple's anti-competitive rules. I was keeping things brief for a comment. Chrome on iOS does some rather creative things like the networking stack you mentioned. It's impressive, really. Still, the actual rendering engine bits have to be Safari. Heck, the whole reason Google built their own networking stack was because of those absurd iOS restrictions so they could implement a subset of the features that Chrome on Android has. So, the app will always be artificially hobbled because of the restrictions. And it simply can't be as fully functional as it is on other platforms due to those limitations. None of that takes away from the fact that overall it's a good thing for Firefox to be in front of iOS users. I honestly do think it is. That way, Firefox remains a viable alternative for those users in Apple-land so they can sync between Mac OS X and iOS. At the same time, I'm sad. Because a Firefox UI around the Safari rendering engine just feels wrong. It may sound silly, but it does feel like a little piece of what Firefox stands for fell with this decision. And I've been promoting Mozilla since its creation and packaging and promoting Firefox since before it hit 1.0.