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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by Someone on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:59PM (#31897384)
If you’re going to nitpick, you can run Gecko on iOS. I see two ways that, according to the letter of Apple’s rules, would be legal:

- don’t allow it to browse the web (https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines, section 2.5.6: “Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript”)

- compile Gecko to JavaScript and run it in Safari.

If you serve the compiled Gecko from a web server I don’t see them stopping you from doing the second, but of course, it would just be Gecko, not FireFox, and performance ‘might’ be somewhat subpar.

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