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Re:New WebKit features in Safari 15.4 by chasil on Monday March 14, 2022 @07:27PM (#30679889)
Android makes it easy to have many browsers with different configurations for specific uses.

I have Bromite configured with DoH that almost blinds my ISP as well as Tor Browser.

Privacy Browser disables JavaScript by default, with an easy toggle to enable it, which is invaluable for taming many sites with obtrusive scripting.

I use Firefox Focus with the bundled libgecko for general browsing.

If I tried this on a Microsoft platform, I would constantly be advised not to do this.

I wish there was a good WebKit browser for Android, just for diversity.

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Re:New WebKit features in Safari 15.4 by jeroenhd on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:21AM (#30682839)
I agree, I'm quite surprised there's no Webkit browser on Android just yet. Though, based on my experience with Webkit on Linux, the Android version of Webkit would probably be leagues behind Safari.

A real mobile Webkit would make testing for iOS a hell of a lot easier. I'm not planning for buying a mac just to run a browser, we're not living in 2010 anymore. Even Microsoft bothers to provide free VMs for developers to run their browser tests in.

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