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minus-squarelemmyvore@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41arrow-down2·3 months agoThere’s no Firefox engine for iOS and Mozilla says it doesn’t make financial sense to port it.
minus-squareGhoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down1·3 months 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-up13arrow-down1·3 months 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.
minus-squarevii@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoWhat exactly is there to port anyway?
minus-squaresugartits@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·3 months agoThe rendering engine. Currently Firefox on iOS is “just” a skin around the iOS provided renderer.
minus-squareelucubra@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·3 months agoI don’t give a mousefuck about the rendering engine. I want extensions
minus-squareᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 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.
minus-squaresugartits@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoGeckoView more specifically in this case. But yes.
There’s no Firefox engine for iOS and Mozilla says it doesn’t make financial sense to port it.
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.
What exactly is there to port anyway?
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.
Gecko, the browser engine?
GeckoView more specifically in this case. But yes.