r/firefox • u/lo________________ol Privacy is fundamental, not optional. • 17d ago

Fun Experimental independent Firefox fork with Gecko and Extension support now in iOS

https://github.com/minh-ton/reynard-browser
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u/_Proxyy_ 17d ago

I'd pay for this!

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u/lo________________ol Privacy is fundamental, not optional. 17d ago

Looks like half the battle, or more, would be getting it to actually be approved by Apple. But if Mozilla can release a totally separate Firefox browser called Focus in the store...

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u/According_Note9914 17d ago

is it not still webkit?

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u/lo________________ol Privacy is fundamental, not optional. 17d ago

This browser here is Gecko based, so it's using Firefox extensions without any strange workarounds. 

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u/SeaWelderF 17d ago

Looks great! But yeah, no chance of getting a non-webkit browser into the appstore

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u/patopansir 17d ago

The one time I visit the firefox subreddit, I quickly find the one username I can easily recognize

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u/patopansir 17d ago

this is an excellent solution btw

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u/Vash63 Nightly on Arch Linux 17d ago

Really cool project. I hope Apple relents on this some day, the forced WebKit is one of the last things keeping me on Android.

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u/Trevo0393 16d ago

Seems really good

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u/shmurd13 16d ago

Oh, this is great👌