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To be fair, it's also impossible to ship Firefox on ChromeOS.
by millstone 12y ago
To be fair, it's also impossible to ship Firefox on ChromeOS.
- air 12y agoTo be really fair, out of the four biggest browser vendors (MS, Apple, Mozilla, Google) only Google makes it possible to use the other browser engines on their mobile platform.
- magicalist 12y agoActually, it would take quite some work to port Firefox, but you could run a NaCl-compiled browser just fine.
- pcwalton 12y agoNot realistically. The NaCl APIs to support dynamically-generated code have to revalidate every time, so they're too slow to support the heavily self-modifying nature of compiled JavaScript.
- azakai 12y agoPreventing other browsers for technical reasons is very different than doing so for policy reasons. iOS prevents other browsers in both ways. ChromeOS (and FirefoxOS, and others) might limit you technically, but do not limit you by policy. When the limitations are just technical, you can try to work around them, but when they are a flat policy, like Apple does, there is nothing you can do.