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minus-squarelemmyvore@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·24 days agoThere’s no Firefox engine for iOS and Mozilla says it doesn’t make financial sense to port it.
minus-squarevii@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·24 days agoWhat exactly is there to port anyway?
minus-squaresugartits@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·24 days agoGeckoView more specifically in this case. But yes.
minus-squaresugartits@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·24 days agoThe rendering engine. Currently Firefox on iOS is “just” a skin around the iOS provided renderer.
minus-squareelucubra@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·24 days agoI don’t give a mousefuck about the rendering engine. I want extensions
minus-squareᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·24 days 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.
minus-squareGhoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·24 days agoDid 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
minus-squarelemmyvore@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·24 days agoThere’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.
There’s no Firefox engine for iOS and Mozilla says it doesn’t make financial sense to port it.
What exactly is there to port anyway?
Gecko, the browser engine?
GeckoView more specifically in this case. But yes.
The rendering engine.
Currently Firefox on iOS is “just” a skin around the iOS provided renderer.
I don’t give a mousefuck about the rendering engine. 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.
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
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.