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by andrewgjohnson 4142 days ago
Can you browse the App Store on iOS using Firefox? Seems like a bit of a red herring issue to be honest.
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No. You can browse the Play Store in any browser except Firefox for Android. You cannot browse App Store with any browser (also you cannot run an alternative browser engine on iOS)
As one commenter said, you can use it in Chrome on android. And until recently (it's in development now) it was mozzila's decision not to make Firefox for iOS.
What would it mean to make Firefox for iOS? My understanding was that iOS requires all browsers to use the same rendering engine under the hood, so "Firefox" there wouldn't be much more than a different skin for Safari. (Has that changed?)
No. It will be a skin around the Webkit runtime - but with Firefox Sync and similar enabled. Maybe a few extra APIs, too...
In other words, more of a SafariFox than a Firefox.
Did apple allowed foreign engines? Or everyone still pretends that re skinned safari is a different browser?

What about asm.js and the likes