My understanding was that until next year when EU+UK legislation regulating digital marketplaces comes further into force, all of these iOS apps for browsers like Chrome, Firefox, etc. MUST be wrappers around the exact same Webkit rendering engine that Safari uses. I think it’s cool that everyone can enjoy the better UIs today (myself included), but everything other than the UI is placebo.

It doesn’t support extensions though. I think only Orion supports extensions on iPhone.

Safari itself supports extensions

Not Firefox and Chrome extensions though, only a much more limited selection

right, but Firefox only supports Firefox extensions and Chrome Chrome, so what’s your point?

Both Firefox and Chrome implemented Google's EEE WebExtensions format so there's rough parity between the two.

As a result, Firefox extensions got dumber. Bye bye Vimperator, DownThemAll, etc.

oh really? this must have been fairly recently, right?

It's a reskinned safari if you are not aware. The hope is once Apple allowed sideloading, we can start to use the actual firefox with extensions.

Well I did not know that. Perhaps that's why it works so seamlessly. Well one of the upsides then is that switching to Firefox in IOS is very painless then.

But it uses the Safari engine