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A comment on Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web. Parent comment

Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by alwillis on Sunday November 17, 2019 @01:01PM (#21559046)
As Apple has reiterated, browser engines require low-level access and for security reasons, other rendering engines aren’t allowed.

You can see from Apple’s updates that keeping up with the vulnerabilities for WebKit and iOS, etc. is already keeping them plenty busy:

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210725 https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210721 https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210624 https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210603

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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by alwillis on Sunday November 17, 2019 @01:36PM (#21559249)
My point is this gets dramatically worse if every browser engine has low-level access to iOS.
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