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Re:Vivaldi Takes a Bite Out of the Apple: Introducing Vivald... by sanirank on Friday October 06, 2023 @02:00AM (#37787553)
Orion browser for iOS permits both Chrome and Firefox extensions. I have Firefox’s ublock origin installed on mine. Seems to work well so far.
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Re:Vivaldi Takes a Bite Out of the Apple: Introducing Vivald... by bad_user on Friday October 06, 2023 @03:08AM (#37787945)
Good to know, will try it, although I don't understand how Firefox's uBlock Origin can work without having its own rendering engine. Are you sure it works?
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Re:Vivaldi Takes a Bite Out of the Apple: Introducing Vivald... by idle_zealot on Friday October 06, 2023 @04:14AM (#37788288)
It does work, at least mostly. My understanding is that the Orion team implemented the Firefox/Chromium extension APIs as part of their app's wrapper around iOS's web view. Apparently this was difficult but possible with the control iOS grants apps over its embeddable privileged web view.
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