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Firefox on iOS without webkit ? In progress or abandoned ? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by Mitch404@lemm.ee to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Hello all,

Firefox on iOS is for me lacking something : it's own engine. As Apple is forcing browsers to use their own engine, WebKit, Firefox on iOS is in the end not a lot more than a wrapper to Safari. And I'm not happy with that.

I remember reading news last year that Apple will be forced by the EU to get rid of this limitation and allow browser to use their own engine.

I stumbled upon a lot of articles dating February stating that Firefox is actively working on having Gecko on iOS, but I cannot find any news about that since.

Do somebody know where we stand with that ? Is it abandoned, still in progress ?

Firefox is my number one browser of choice, and the only mature and good alternative to Chromium based browsers today. I would love to be able to use it on my phone as well as on my desktop...

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[–] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I'm looking forward to it too. They have mentioned a few times in the past they wanted this but I think as long as it's not officially possible they are not going to post progress reports. Without having any evidence I'm pretty sure it'll happen but I can understand Mozilla not making any promises until it's possible for sure.

Furthermore it will in all likelihood only be allowed in markets that legislate for it which ultimately will probably be everywhere but not to start with.

We just have to be patient.