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Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by smoldesu on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @02:07PM (#33988427)
On iOS, Cocoa uses WebKit to render text, and everything UIKit-based on MacOS gets rendered with dynamically-linked WebKit as well. It's safe to say that if your Mac is on, WebKit is probably running.
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Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by threeseed on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @02:23PM (#33988712)
There is a big difference between a dynamically-linked WebKit and a constantly running process.

I am on a Mac right now. What is the name of the WebKit process ?

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Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by smoldesu on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @02:29PM (#33988810)
Run this:

`lsof | grep webkit`

You'll need to run that as the user handling WebKit processes, so sudo might be required.

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Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by ubercow13 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @03:33PM (#33990090)
How does this prove that Safari gets an inherent performance advantage over Chrome? I guess on startup there could be a slight difference if the library is already loaded in memory.
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Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by nwienert on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @03:39PM (#33990183)
No process there (Ventura, ran with sudo).

And like everyone has said that would only affect startup time. Safari does absolutely blow away Chrome at startup time, but it also is more performant in basically every other way: battery, memory, runtime, window resize, tab open/close/re-open, forward/back, paint, layout...

The UI also is more minimal making well built sites feel much more native than Chrome (on Mac and iOS) making sites feel much more native in practice, especially combined with all the performance.

Chrome feels like a dinosaur.

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Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by kyleee on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:14PM (#33995113)
Safari feels like how Chrome felt 10 years ago :p
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Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by andrekandre on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:46PM (#33991847) 

  > On iOS, Cocoa uses WebKit to render text, and everything UIKit-based on MacOS
you are saying that nstextview and friends are rendered with webkit?
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Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by ninkendo on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @09:34PM (#33994366)
They have no idea what they’re talking about, just move on.
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Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by jamil7 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @01:15AM (#33995943)
Literally everything in this comment is wrong.
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