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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by st3fan on Friday November 08, 2019 @06:42PM (#21488152)
They are now because they both use those APIs. You can read about the impact of this specific one here:

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-red...

Before using those private APIs, with no other options to reach the same performance as Safari, both Chrome and Firefox were in a completely different league.

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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by threeseed on Friday November 08, 2019 @08:03PM (#21488725)
It is ridiculous to say that Chrome/Firefox are only popular now because they use private APIs.

Your own article says that Firefox only recently started using them.

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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by jolux on Friday November 08, 2019 @07:26PM (#21488483)
CALayer and IOSurface are not private...
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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by Null-Set on Friday November 08, 2019 @08:03PM (#21488729)
CALayerHost and CAContext were listed in the offending apis in this rejection of an electron app https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/20027
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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by kalleboo on Friday November 08, 2019 @11:06PM (#21489520)
Firefox does not use CALayerHost. It uses the public IOSurface and CALayer.contents APIs.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/11/04/electron-apps-rejected-fr...

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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by jolux on Friday November 08, 2019 @08:20PM (#21488829)
Are those mentioned in the Mozilla post?
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