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Re:Apple is not defending browser engine choice by jacobolus on Friday June 24, 2022 @04:53AM (#31859238)
Personally I find Chrome to be utterly unusable for my browsing habits (hundreds of browser tabs open at once). It glitches, spins up my laptop’s fans like there’s no tomorrow and burns through battery, eats all the RAM it can find, and easily crashes. And that’s without even getting to the privacy discussion.

The existence of a Chrome-based iOS browser would quickly lead web developers to drop Safari and Firefox support (“just install Chrome bro!”) so I for one am thankful that Apple is not budging here.

Their browser is, for me, strictly superior. And their political decisions are the last defense of a multi-browser web.

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Re:Apple is not defending browser engine choice by patrec on Friday June 24, 2022 @05:14AM (#31859387)
> The existence of a Chrome-based iOS browser would quickly lead web developers to drop Safari and Firefox support (“just install Chrome bro!”)

Yeah, that would totally happen because websites that force people to install some massively resource hungry and sluggish browser first will obviously out-compete those that don't.

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Re:Apple is not defending browser engine choice by jacobolus on Friday June 24, 2022 @05:24AM (#31859461)
Joe Random web developer doesn’t necessarily care whether the browser he personally develops against is disrespectful of someone else’s client-side resources. He just wants to make his website with as little busywork as possible, and testing every website feature for cross-browser compatibility is busywork. If he can avoid the trouble by telling visitors to switch browsers, he will be happy to do so.

This is not hypothetical: developers have been putting up “this site works best (or only works) in X browser” warnings for decades by now.

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Re:Apple is not defending browser engine choice by depressedpanda on Friday June 24, 2022 @06:10AM (#31859729)
No, what would happen is that Apple would actually have to spend resources on competing with other browser engines, instead of holding the web back via monopoly. They certainly have the money to do so.
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