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Comment by Imustaskforhelp

8 days ago

Okay now that we have come to the topic, How is Orion browser on App store whereas all others aren't?

is there a way to make more innovation in this area and maybe an extension or two developed adding more perms etc or forking Orion or the know-how behind it and replicating it could finally allow PWA on apple iphones?

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dcdc123  8 days ago

There are many browsers on the App Store but they all have to use one of two browser engines bundled with iOS.

  • Imustaskforhelp  8 days ago

    No you don't get me but all browsers in Iphone even firefox and chrome are webkit forks

    and neither of them allow any sort of extensions on top

    Orion is the only one I think which still supports firefox or chrome extensions as well. I am sure that it can support PWA or already does, not sure, someone should probably test it out.

    Theoretically if you can modify the engine enough to run firefox/chrome extensions on it when firefox/chrome themselves on Iphone can't but somehow Orion can, I don't see a reason why nobody's else doing it but combined with some really really good pwa support as well?

    • dcdc123  8 days ago

      I don't think you get how it works. When you download a browser on iOS it does not have an engine _at all_, not even a "WebKit fork". The browser is just a UI and wrapper for one of the engines bundles in iOS. No modifications can be done to the engine whatsoever, it is part of the OS.

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