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acatton on Nov 24, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stripe live dashboard

Firefox on iPhone uses Webkit. It's basically a Safari skin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Firefox&oldid=118...

> It is the first Firefox-branded browser not to use the Gecko layout engine as is used in Firefox for desktop and mobile. Apple's policies require all iOS apps that browse the web to use the built-in WebKit rendering framework and WebKit JavaScript, so using Gecko is not possible.

firesteelrain on Nov 24, 2023 | [–]

Good to know. I am not sure why that was relevant to the page load issues of the Stripe dashboard since I didn’t compare it to Safari

rezonant on Nov 24, 2023 | [–]

Hopefully Apple's policy ends soon.

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