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> I thought my iPhone 13 was broken, but it turns out, if I never start Firefox, it works perfectly.

See, that's weird because that's still WebKit. Obviously there's plenty of room for variation - good and bad! - in the wrapper around the engine, but I still think of the core browser engine as being the interesting bit.

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Yep, both major non-Safari Mobile browser are still using WebKit, which means, it's probably better to use Safari unless there are compelling features that break out of the walled garden.

Apple rescinded the "WebKit for every browser" requirement, but Chrome iOS with the Blink rendering engine will supposedly arrive this year (2025) and yet I don't think a similar FF Quantum for iOS will happen anytime soon.

I happened to have FF installed on an iPhone 13 Pro because it synced over from an iCloud backup but I never bothered to run it since I tried running on an iPhone 6S once-upon-a-time.

> See, that's weird because that's still WebKit. Obviously there's plenty of room for variation - good and bad! - in the wrapper around the engine, but I still think of the core browser engine as being the interesting bit.

I agree that the browser engine is the interesting bit.

But nonetheless, Firefox is completely useless on iOS.

I've had to change not because I wanted to.

I still keep it around as a password manager because of Firefox Sync, because I don't need to open it.

But I really need to start investing in another password manager.

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