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Re:Firefox is the best mobile browser by N0RMAN on Saturday October 11, 2025 @12:15PM (#45550291)
I think that’s not true for EU devices? Not sure if there are any browser with an alternative engine are actually available though.

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

Re:Firefox is the best mobile browser by jeroenhd on Saturday October 11, 2025 @12:45PM (#45550568)
As long as you pass Apple's arbitrary rules, you can make your own browser for iOS. Ladybug uses Apple's test suite as an arbitrary measure of completeness.

However, no browser engine has bothered so far because they'd need to upload a separate app to the app store specifically for EU users, and non-EU developers cannot debug the application on a real device so manpower is region-restricted unless you hack around the limitations.

Re:Firefox is the best mobile browser by JimDabell on Saturday October 11, 2025 @01:49PM (#45551136)
> As long as you pass Apple's arbitrary rules, you can make your own browser for iOS. Ladybug uses Apple's test suite as an arbitrary measure of completeness.

The browser is called Ladybird and it isn’t Apple’s test suite, web-platform-tests is a collective effort all the major players contribute to. Almost two thousand people have contributed to it:

https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/graphs/contributor...

Re:Firefox is the best mobile browser by thayne on Saturday October 11, 2025 @01:09PM (#45550793)
Kind of. But Apple makes it so hard to develop an engine for EU devices, that no browser makers are currently willing to do it.