Comment on European iPhones are more fun now

• Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Did they say that? Cause it looks like there is at least some work being done on this:

  bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882872

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  • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• vii@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What exactly is there to port anyway?

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  • sugartits@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The rendering engine.

    Currently Firefox on iOS is “just” a skin around the iOS provided renderer.

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    • elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t give a mousefuck about the rendering engine. I want extensions

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      • KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Gecko, the browser engine?

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    • sugartits@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      GeckoView more specifically in this case. But yes.

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    • vii@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But they do have mobile arm builds already don’t they? Of course iOS is very different from Android but it’s not like they’d have to do complete port.

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