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Re:EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practice... by JustSomeNobody on Saturday October 01, 2016 @12:34PM (#12618578)
What changed? I thought the other browsers still had to basically be Safari (webkit, the javascript engine, etc) underneath.
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Re:EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practice... by sschueller on Saturday October 01, 2016 @12:45PM (#12618648)
I thought they opened it up but maybe I am mistaken. I vaguely recall something about other browsers being slower than the built in one, maybe that was fixed?
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Re:EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practice... by pcwalton on Saturday October 01, 2016 @12:50PM (#12618672)
I think you're thinking of the fact that WKWebView allows you to use the JIT, whereas UIWebView didn't allow for that.

There are still various ways in which third-party browsers are penalized, such as links from other applications being hardwired to open in Safari.

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