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by Karunamon 3853 days ago
Which makes them not really third party browsers anymore, they're basically frames around a UIWebView (which is Safari) which can't do anything interesting.
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sosborn 3853 days ago
UIWebView and Safari are different things. Yes, Safari uses (essentially) UIWebView, but a browser is much more than its rendering engine.
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Karunamon 3853 days ago
The important bit there is "do anything interesting". Forget about any plugins that directly manipulate the markup (so no ยต/adblock, no ghostery, no noscript).

Yeah, they can display web pages, but iOS Firefox/Chrome provide almost no benefits over the stock safari. Less in fact, since it's a near certainty that Safari is using privileged APIs to integrate with the OS in a way that no other browsers are allowed to.

(Didn't a very prominent company get sued for something along these lines back in the 90s?)

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sosborn 3853 days ago
You can actually load whatever you want into a UIWebView. You could do the request, manipulate the response and display your modified HTML.

Adblocking is of course now integrated into the OS.

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