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Re: Safari question

Subject: Re: Safari question
From: Mark Giffin <mgiffin -at- earthlink -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 12:35:49 -0800

I don't have an iPhone, but if you have a Firefox account that syncs bookmarks etc, it probably will work on iPhone too. I'm sure that installing Firefox will not change your Safari installation, you will be able to use either one. One technical point is that any browser on iPhone is required to use the same underlying browser code, I forget what that code is actually called. So any browser on iPhone is basically the same, with cosmetic differences. Including Chrome. This was true a few years ago when I learned it, and it may have changed, but I doubt it. I'm not sure what this means for things like tracking.

This is different from a browser on Android or on a desktop computer, where different browsers can have their own HTML parsing engine, their own Javascript engine, etc.

Mark


On 12/26/2019 10:22 AM, Ken Poshedly wrote:

Gang,
Technically, my question is not exactly tech writing, but is sort of related.

I use Firefox as my desktop platform browser. I routinely get emails from Firefox to install its own mobile browser on my phone.
I use an iPhone 8Plus equipped with Apple's own Safari brower.
I'm not necessarily pro or con Apple, but does anybody here use Firefox on their iPhone and if so, what are your thoughts? How different is it from Safari, how much more (or less) effective is it than Safari? Does it delete Safari from the phone if I choose to return to it?
They say "don't fix it if it ain't broke", but I'm just considering Firefox as a possible as better (or maybe not).
-- Kenpo in Atlanta
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