Re: Safari question

Subject: Re: Safari question
From: Thorsten Konersmann <tk -at- documentation -dot- engineering>
To: Mark Giffin <mgiffin -at- earthlink -dot- net>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:14:07 +0100

Itâs my understanding too that third-party browsers must use the systemâs
Apple WebKit rendering engine. This has always been the case in iOS, at
least partly, for security considerations.

Therefore, third-party browsers cannot differentiate themselves from each
other based on fundamental technical/engine-related features.
Differentiating feature are exclusively related to UI/UX, such as separate
user account (within the app), guest mode, bookmark sync, etc. afaik.

E.g., see
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19377875

On Thu 26. Dec 2019 at 21:35 Mark Giffin <mgiffin -at- earthlink -dot- net> wrote:

> I don't have an iPhone, but if you have a Firefox account that syncs
> bookmarks etc, it probably will work on iPhone too. I'm sure that
> installing Firefox will not change your Safari installation, you will be
> able to use either one. One technical point is that any browser on
> iPhone is required to use the same underlying browser code, I forget
> what that code is actually called. So any browser on iPhone is basically
> the same, with cosmetic differences. Including Chrome. This was true a
> few years ago when I learned it, and it may have changed, but I doubt
> it. I'm not sure what this means for things like tracking.
>
> This is different from a browser on Android or on a desktop computer,
> where different browsers can have their own HTML parsing engine, their
> own Javascript engine, etc.
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 12/26/2019 10:22 AM, Ken Poshedly wrote:
> > Gang,
> > Technically, my question is not exactly tech writing, but is sort of
> related.
> >
> > I use Firefox as my desktop platform browser. I routinely get emails
> from Firefox to install its own mobile browser on my phone.
> > I use an iPhone 8Plus equipped with Apple's own Safari brower.
> > I'm not necessarily pro or con Apple, but does anybody here use Firefox
> on their iPhone and if so, what are your thoughts? How different is it from
> Safari, how much more (or less) effective is it than Safari? Does it delete
> Safari from the phone if I choose to return to it?
> > They say "don't fix it if it ain't broke", but I'm just considering
> Firefox as a possible as better (or maybe not).
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References:
Safari question: From: Ken Poshedly
Re: Safari question: From: Mark Giffin

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