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Comment by drooopy | Hacker News Reader

Helping accelerate the death of Flash was probably Steve Jobs' most important contribution to computing. That said, it's appalling that Apple is getting away with banning 3rd party browser engines on iOS.

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Then again, iOS is a better OS because it can get away with supporting no third party browser engines.

Why is it a better OS because of that? Not really seeing the logical connection here.

Because there are also advantages. iOS gets away with forbidding JIT execution in third party programs, so they get away with exposing no APIs that allow memory segments to be executable unless they are signed, which is a great thing from a security point of view.

Also as there is only one browser engine, the system only contains the bugs that are in one browser engine. Most operating systems have bugs in the browser engine that comes with the OS, and bugs in the engine users actually use which is more bugs.

Then again, Firefox is worse on iOS because Apple can get away with banning third party browser engines.

This really grinds my gears. Recently I was able to install Firefox addons and chrome addons on Orion browser on iPad when both chrome and firefox themselves arent able to. Why?

If Orion can do it, why not Firefox ?

Alignment of incentives. Orion is funded by users and this is what they demand.

https://orionfeedback.org/t/extensions

Too bad for Firefox. I don’t care; if you want to use Firefox on a phone, get an Android phone. It’s not like you don’t know what you get in advance.

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