BrowserEngineKit – Apple Developer Documentation

Re:BrowserEngineKit – Apple Developer Documentation by M3L0NM4N on Friday January 26, 2024 @04:09AM (#39140367)

Will this allow Firefox to have extensions now that they’re not limited by WebKit? Or will Apple still axe that as a “third party App Store” or some bullshit?

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Re:BrowserEngineKit – Apple Developer Documentation by mcny on Friday January 26, 2024 @04:14AM (#39140405)

Looks like this is in the EU only

--- Requirements

To qualify for the entitlement, your app must:

    Be available on iOS in the European Union only
    Be a separate binary from any app that uses the system-provided web browser engine
    Not have the default browser entitlement
    [...]

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https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engi...

Given that Congress is in a stalemate, I don't see this coming to the US anytime soon.

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Re:BrowserEngineKit – Apple Developer Documentation by olliebrkr on Friday January 26, 2024 @04:28AM (#39140513)

"only", so we'll likely start seeing multiple listings of the same app?

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Re:BrowserEngineKit – Apple Developer Documentation by saagarjha on Friday January 26, 2024 @05:13AM (#39140881)

Yes.

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Re:BrowserEngineKit – Apple Developer Documentation by emayljames on Friday January 26, 2024 @04:46AM (#39140627)

Could California not maybe act sooner?

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Re:BrowserEngineKit – Apple Developer Documentation by charcircuit on Friday January 26, 2024 @04:26AM (#39140497)

Orion supports Firefox extensions on iOS while using webkit, so there is an existence proof that it's possible to at least have limited support for them.

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Re:BrowserEngineKit – Apple Developer Documentation by loadsas on Friday January 26, 2024 @04:40AM (#39140591)

They do. But for example the ublock extensions shows always zero blocked ads. Maybe it's a misconfigurarion on my side?

Looking forward to a real firefox on ios.

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Re:BrowserEngineKit – Apple Developer Documentation by Squarex on Friday January 26, 2024 @04:47AM (#39140634)

no ublock origin is not working (yet?)

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Re:BrowserEngineKit – Apple Developer Documentation by saagarjha on Friday January 26, 2024 @05:14AM (#39140887)

Orion is almost certainly going to request the entitlement to ship a custom WebKit, in line with what they do on macOS. This might take a while, though.

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