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Re:Open-sourcing Chrome on iOS by richdougherty on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @06:39PM (#13536547)
> The main good reason is power efficiency.

It would be great if there was competition so that other browser developers could try to improve power efficiency even more.

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Re:Open-sourcing Chrome on iOS by MBCook on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @10:17PM (#13537901)
When Chrome stops trying to melt peoples computers, I'll give them more of a chance. It's been well known for years the chrome is very hard on battery life compared to Safari, and while they seem to be working on it they're still WAY behind. It doesn't seem to be a high priority for them (relative to new features), so I don't see why they even try.
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Re:Open-sourcing Chrome on iOS by richdougherty on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:22AM (#13541989)
It doesn't have to be Chrome. It could be Edge, Opera, Firefox or some other browser that's yet to be invented. Currently none of these will ever exist on iOS.
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