The side of the cart reads:
“Safari is a great browser,
for downloading Firefox.”
Too bad with Apple, all browsers are just Safari under the hood with a different skin. One of the biggest reasons I can’t switch to IOS.
Luckily this will change next year with the new EU rules, as they explicitly call out allowing alternative browser engines.
Keep in mind that switching out the engine under your app is probably no easy task, nor is making it well on a new platform in the first place.
True. Luckily it seems Mozilla has been preparing for this in advance: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/07/mozilla-developing-non-webkit-version-of-firefox/
Yeah that’s cool
https://i.imgur.com/u1yGUY3.jpg
Keep telling yourself that. 212,000 trackers and ads blocked on FFFocus so far.
There are different reasons to support alternative browsers. While Firefox on IOS definitely does ad and tracker blocking (which is great!) Some people are concerned that the underlying engine is restricted on IOS to webkit. So it may very well be a better experience for you than safari, but that alone does not satisfy concerns of homogenization in the browser space on Apple devices.
Firefox on iOS is straight doodoo though.
Isn’t it just Safari with a Firefox skin?
I’d heard they were opening up the platform though. Maybe proper Firefox with add on support some day?
