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Steuard
on Feb 10, 2015
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Google Play Store: Browsing with Firefox is no lon...
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?)
untog
on Feb 10, 2015
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No. It will be a skin around the Webkit runtime - but with Firefox Sync and similar enabled. Maybe a few extra APIs, too...
fpgeek
on Feb 10, 2015
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In other words, more of a SafariFox than a Firefox.
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