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by vaccinator 2029 days ago
Cant you install a browser that is not Safari by jailbreaking? I dont know because I avoid Apple.
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No, you can install Chrome or Firefox but they are still just wrappers around webkit
Even if you jailbreak? Poor apple fans....
Thereā€˜s probably no one who has gone to the trouble of porting a browser engine for only the sake of running on jailbroken devices.
You could if chrome or firefox actually had a specific ios jailbreak app. But why on earth would they dedicate the resources to building a whole app that hardly anyone would be able to use.
I mean for the most part, I doubt the average Apple fan is going to care.
Yeah you can run Firefox (or others) as your default browser now
Notably, only w the latest iOS update a few weeks ago
They are no longer required to use Safari's engine in the background?
It's still Safari's engine but the web browser can built their own functionality on top of it, like content blocking, tab sync etc.
Content blocking functionality is not exposed to third-party browsers.