There's also a new browser choice screen. Today Apple has announced a new set of changes it's going to implement into its mobile operating systems to...

I don’t expect most iPhone users to ever change their default settings, but it’s nice that it will be possible in a year.

Who knows, maybe one day you can run actual Firefox on them too? :p

  • lemmyvoreEnglish
    26•2 months ago

    You know, I hadn’t realized this before. Thanks to Apple’s decade-long policy, alternative browsers for iOS literally don’t exist, they’ll have to be ported. It will take years for that to happen, if anybody even bothers. Well, Google will.

    And that’s how Apple will have managed to shoot themselves in the foot and have iOS fall under Chrome domination too.

    At this point if they were smart they would sponsor the ports of alternative browsers that are not Chrome, but I doubt they have it in them.

        • @uranibabaEnglish
          5•2 months ago

          I think so. As someone said, safari with another gui.

          • @[email protected]English
            8•2 months ago

            It is, but it allows you to install many Firefox extensions. Not everything works, but it’s the best option out there I’ve found.

      • @AnUnusualRelicEnglish
        13•2 months ago

        Right. Like Apple’s webkit is just the reskinned KDE browser?

      • lemmyvoreEnglish
        7•2 months ago

        For now, but the EU will force Apple to allow non-WebKit engines on iOS. At which point only Google will have enough money to spare porting an entire engine to a small market.

      • @db2English
        3•2 months ago

        What year do you think it is right now?

          • @db2English
            2•2 months ago

            One could ask you the same thing and it would be a more appropriately directed question. Chrome hasn’t been WebKit for literally years.

              • @db2English
                4•2 months ago

                No shit Sherlock. If you made the same observation about Firefox it would be just as dumb. The whole point of this post is that other rendering engines van be ported to iOS now. It doesn’t matter one little bit what Apple forced yesterday and it certainly doesn’t mean Blink is WebKit today.

                Oh look, a link from the quick Google search you didn’t do:

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine)

                In gonna go ahead and block you now though, have a nice day.