Now if only Apple will let Firefox run its own rendering engine instead of Safari’s.
Like, that’s the only thing I don’t get. Other apps which are not web browsers, fine. Use Safari. But an actual web browser? FFS, let them use their own engine.
You can! There’s a browser called reynard and it’s based off gecko web browser but you still need to sideload them, it isn’t available in App Store :-(
The main goal for this browser is to make web browsing usable for older iOS, I find it pretty neat so I wanted to share this!
Orion has gotten around that, somehow. Not sure what kind of wizardry they’ve pulled, but they managed to get both Firefox and Chrome extensions working on iOS.
I’m no apple fan, but I will note that their Tight AF control over the apps nets them a very very small power draw and ram footprint. I don’t think they’re pushing safari because they don’t want you to have a choice, I think it’s control over their own perf that they’re looking for in this case
Now if only Apple will let Firefox run its own rendering engine instead of Safari’s.
Like, that’s the only thing I don’t get. Other apps which are not web browsers, fine. Use Safari. But an actual web browser? FFS, let them use their own engine.
You can! There’s a browser called reynard and it’s based off gecko web browser but you still need to sideload them, it isn’t available in App Store :-(
The main goal for this browser is to make web browsing usable for older iOS, I find it pretty neat so I wanted to share this!
https://github.com/byeCl0ud/reynard-browser-compiled
its just that Apple forces Webkit to all Apps on the app store.
Orion has gotten around that, somehow. Not sure what kind of wizardry they’ve pulled, but they managed to get both Firefox and Chrome extensions working on iOS.
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I’m no apple fan, but I will note that their Tight AF control over the apps nets them a very very small power draw and ram footprint. I don’t think they’re pushing safari because they don’t want you to have a choice, I think it’s control over their own perf that they’re looking for in this case
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I doubt it. There’s a lot of money in surveillance capitalism and I don’t buy for a minute that Apple are too good to do that or any stupid excuses.