Apple forces all browsers on their app store to use WebKit, the engine Apple uses. They’re basically Safari with a different skin.
That said, the EU is forcing Apple to allow side loading of apps + app stores next year, and Google and Mozilla have already said they have new iOS browsers in development, so there’s that.
I don’t know about that, but I imagine it’ll be any recent iPhone that’s still receiving feature updates. I doubt the ones only receiving security patches will gain the ability.
Apple really won’t want to fuck around or give the courts any room for interpreting them as breaking the rules here because the potential fine is up to 10% of worldwide annual revenue. Going up to 20% for repeat offenses.
Yup, revenue, not profit. Worldwide. An amount Apple/Google/Microsoft/etc are terrified of the prospect of paying.
E: In 2022, Apple’s revenue was $394 billion (jesus fucking christ, by the way). They really really do not want even the slightest risk of an almost $40 billion fine.
I didn’t know Apple did security updates after feature updates.
I really hope my iPad pro first gen gets this, even if it’s the last update it ever gets.
Nope, I think our only hope is the EU forcing more openness on the platform. Thankfully there are safari addons now, they’re useful though limited. I just wish we had Firefox and its extension library like android does now.
Safari also has tons of extensions available, such as: StopTheMadness (annoyance blocker, highly configurable), AdGuard (ad blocker), Vinegar (blocks YouTube ads on the web), and many others.
What are you looking for from iOS Firefox? I was hoping for a solid ad blocker but someone made an iOS browser called Orion and it’s built in Mozilla and is pretty much exactly what I was looking
Probably not but the Orion browser already has Firefox extensions and safari also has extensions that let you adblock and block cookies (adguard and hush)
Has anyone heard if the iOS Firefox will ever allow extensions?
Apple forces all browsers on their app store to use WebKit, the engine Apple uses. They’re basically Safari with a different skin.
That said, the EU is forcing Apple to allow side loading of apps + app stores next year, and Google and Mozilla have already said they have new iOS browsers in development, so there’s that.
About EU forcing sideload, is it known how they have to implement? Only new devices? All supported devices?
I don’t know about that, but I imagine it’ll be any recent iPhone that’s still receiving feature updates. I doubt the ones only receiving security patches will gain the ability.
Apple really won’t want to fuck around or give the courts any room for interpreting them as breaking the rules here because the potential fine is up to 10% of worldwide annual revenue. Going up to 20% for repeat offenses.
Yup, revenue, not profit. Worldwide. An amount Apple/Google/Microsoft/etc are terrified of the prospect of paying.
E: In 2022, Apple’s revenue was $394 billion (jesus fucking christ, by the way). They really really do not want even the slightest risk of an almost $40 billion fine.
I didn’t know Apple did security updates after feature updates. I really hope my iPad pro first gen gets this, even if it’s the last update it ever gets.
Nope, I think our only hope is the EU forcing more openness on the platform. Thankfully there are safari addons now, they’re useful though limited. I just wish we had Firefox and its extension library like android does now.
Orion is an alternative that supports FF extensions. It’s still new and has bugs here and there, but it’s promising.
Although Firefox on iOS doesn’t support extensions, other browsers do.
Orion supports Firefox extensions.
Safari also has tons of extensions available, such as: StopTheMadness (annoyance blocker, highly configurable), AdGuard (ad blocker), Vinegar (blocks YouTube ads on the web), and many others.
Firewood Focus has built in adblocking you can import into safari!
Also wipr is a couple bux and blocks ads amazingly in safari.
What are you looking for from iOS Firefox? I was hoping for a solid ad blocker but someone made an iOS browser called Orion and it’s built in Mozilla and is pretty much exactly what I was looking
Probably not but the Orion browser already has Firefox extensions and safari also has extensions that let you adblock and block cookies (adguard and hush)
I’ll try Orion. Thanks.