Comment on Startpage.com is not a default option for Apple users
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Apple users
I mean, if the only constraint is that it be on an Apple platform, and not specifically Safari, I imagine just use a browser that lets you choose your search engine. Firefox can, and I’m sure that there are also Chrome-based browsers out there that do so as well.
RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Just FYI there are no chrome based browsers on IOS cos there is no chromium, the FOSS ones use Firefox mostly
bamboo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Huh? Custom web engines aren’t allowed on iOS, Firefox’s included. All iOS browsers are just UIs on top of Safari’s engine.
RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
They are based off Firefox for IOS which uses WebKit, but they are still based on the browser like Edge which is based on chromium vs Flakon which uses blink but not the rest chromium
hedgehog@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
I’ve reread this like 5 times and still have no clue what you’re trying to say.
The person you replied to was technically incorrect - other browsers aren’t UIs on top of Safari, but (outside the EU) they’re all limited to the same browser rendering engine Safari uses, Webkit.
This means that other rendering engines - namely Firefox’s Gecko and Chromium’s Blink, as well as niche engines like Ladybird’s - are unavailable there (outside the EU).
This is not generally true of browsers on iOS, and might not be true of any.
I didn’t know what this was at first - apparently this was a typo for “Falkon.”
The browser rendering engine used by Chromium browsers is Blink, which was forked from Webkit over a decade ago, but I’m not aware of any non-Chromium browsers that use it… including Falkon, which appears to leverage QtWebEngine, which itself uses Chromium.
By “based on” do you mean “uses the same branding as and is loosely inspired by?” Because I highly doubt that the iOS codebase is based off the desktop codebase for many Chromium or Firefox-based browsers… they may share some code and assets but I doubt they get to share much more than that.