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European iPhones are more fun now (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There's no Firefox engine for iOS and Mozilla says it doesn't make financial sense to port it.

[–] vii@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What exactly is there to port anyway?

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gecko, the browser engine?

[–] sugartits@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

GeckoView more specifically in this case. But yes.

[–] sugartits@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The rendering engine.

Currently Firefox on iOS is "just" a skin around the iOS provided renderer.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't give a mousefuck about the rendering engine. I want extensions

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

I want extensions

Sounds like you do care about the rendering engine as that would basically give you a true mobile Firefox experience and access to all the extensions.

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did they say that? Cause it looks like there is at least some work being done on this:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882872

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 0 points 3 months ago

There's been talk about exploring porting the engine to iOS at the beginning of 2023 but AFAIK the current state of things was that it's a significant undertaking and probably not worth it just for the EU market.