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Re:Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash” by Griffinsauce on Thursday May 06, 2021 @06:30AM (#27061250)
> Also, most users are not aware that third-party iOS browsers like Chrome, Brave, and Firefox are actually just light UI "skins" on top of the Safari browser engine, Webkit. Apple refuses to allow third party browser engines on iOS.

IME even a lot of developers are unaware of this fact.

An added annoyance flowing from this is that Apple does not allow remote debugging for webviews, so any reasonable debugging flow for those browsers is blocked. Great fun when you have a bug in iOS Chrome only.

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Re:Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash” by jchb on Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:20AM (#27062792)
You can remote debug webviews (from Safari on a Mac), but only web views in apps signed with a development provisioning profile (1). So to debug web content in iOS Chrome you would have to build and install Chromium for iOS yourself, rather than use the Chrome App Store version.

(1) https://webkit.org/web-inspector/enabling-web-inspector/

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