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by cookiengineer 1166 days ago
Because Safari and its WebView process are still the only processes allowed to run JIT compilers.

Other Browsers on iOS are just unaccelerated Safari Webviews.

In order to have a real Browser on iOS, with a real Web Extension API (manifest v2/v3) users would need to jailbreak their devices.

This has been going on for decades, and Apple pretty much gives zero effs about it.