Re:Locking in WebKit (2016)
by akskos on Monday December 17, 2018 @06:01AM
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Is it true for Firefox as well? I remember Firefox wasn't available for iOS long time ago because of this issue but these days it is.
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Yep, roughly speaking you can't compete on speed with your own rendering engine because you cannot do Just In Time style memory optimizations in the iOS sandbox.
Only Apple can ship that type of code, so any browser from the App Store competes on features with Safari, not on memory/speed etc.
Re:Locking in WebKit (2016)
by solarkraft on Monday December 17, 2018 @10:15AM
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All browsers on iOS have to use Safari, so Firefox for iOS is just Safari with Firefox's UI and Sync.
Re:Locking in WebKit (2016)
by kevin_b_er on Monday December 17, 2018 @11:23AM
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It is still true for Firefox. Apple does not permit or approve applications that can execute their own code. Such a thing permits you to have "webapps" that are not under the purview of Apple and the walled garden. As a result, all browsers are just reskinning Apple's browser.
They had to make a small exception for educational programming apps, but that isn't Firefox.