If you install Firefox on Windows, MacOS, Linux, ChromeOS, or Android you get *real* Firefox, complete with the Gecko engine. But not on iOS. Apple cripples engine competition in silent, deeply impactful ways.https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1176856950086275072 …
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This might be the way to distribute alternative browser's on iOS: https://youtu.be/ftyWe6DVvO4 I know there will be some limitations, but hey, whatever works. But probably still not enough to invest in such browser's development.
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That's the issue; Apple's explicit policy suppresses both extant and potential browser competition. Combined with the worst-in-the-industry feature pace of their engine, a death knell for the web as computing goes mobile.
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No, hard to muster the energy to get it to a shippable state knowing that we'd be playing chicken with the App Store review process.
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But for the record the JIT and everything worked fine (after we fixed a few things) and the scrolling was butter smooth (all that optimization work done for Firefox OS worked pretty well there).
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