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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's about 10%. Still not a lot.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of desktop, maybe.

Overall (and like 60% of all browsing is now mobile), no way. Mobile is where alternative browsers really suffer. Firefox actually seems OK for Android but it's not quite as slick on many sites, probably due to them targeting Chrome. Apple force Safari on you so you can't use Firefox at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

You can use Firefox on iphones

Edit: you can, but not really

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

On iOS, Apple only allows browsers to use Safari's WebKit. So they all use the same rendering engine, effectively making all iOS browsers Safari clones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Did not know that. Thanks.

[–] droans 1 points 1 year ago

And Safari's WebKit already includes this.

[–] AnUnusualRelic 6 points 1 year ago

You can pretend that you do. It's almost the same thing, but not quite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you? When did they change that?

I always thought they forced everything to use Safari under the hood.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Nothing has changed in that respect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah you're right