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Comment by bigyikes | Hacker News Reader

Check out Orion[1]. They claim to run web extensions on iOS. Apparently they ported many extension APIs to work with WebKit, which sounds pretty impressive.

I can’t vouch for their iOS browser (yet) but I’ve been using their Mac browser and it’s been pleasant.

[1]: https://browser.kagi.com/

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From their FAQ (https://browser.kagi.com/faq.html#oss)

> Is Orion open-source?

> We’re working on it! We’ve begun with some of our components and intend to open more in the future.

Forking WebKit, porting hundreds of APIs and writing a browser app from scratch has been challenging for our small team. Properly maintaining an open-source project takes time and resources we’re short on at the moment, so if you want to contribute at this time, please consider becoming a beta tester.

But … Safari runs WebExtensions on iOS?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/saf...

A really bad implementation of the WebExtension API (many missing features compared to other browsers and next to no relevant documentation) that also requires wrapping each extension with an iOS app and distributing it on the App Store.

It's nice but has one major flaw of all webkit browsers. If you speed up a video, the audio will crap out and become tinny. Especially hard to hear speech. Only Firefox, Chrome get it right. It's a shame Safari / Orion still have such a fundamental flaw.

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