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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by digi_owl on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:49PM (#15369927)
That's basically a wrapper around Webview, that in turn is chrome based...
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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by riquito on Friday September 29, 2017 @09:22PM (#15370624)
That's true on IOS but on Android is the real thing
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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by digi_owl on Friday September 29, 2017 @10:15PM (#15370806)
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/wiki/Archite...

Notice that they could not support Android 4.4 because they would require using geckoview.

Also, there is no way a browser of only 4MB can contain a whole web engine. The only Android browsers that get so small depend on webview.

Consider this, even the old Presto based Opera Mobile clocked in at 15MB on Android.

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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by lol768 on Saturday September 30, 2017 @04:04PM (#15374752)
I think https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/issues/13 is the relevant tracking issue.
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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by agumonkey on Friday September 29, 2017 @07:32PM (#15370154)
true I forgot that (although it seems they forked brave but that's still webview)
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