@winterschon
I am continuing the thread from your contribution because indeed people may like to explore in-app containment.

Back to app side-loading…

• unmigrated accounts on legacy browser—such as #Safari
• pro liaison on a browser approved by your organization
• consuming, online streaming, on the all-purpose browser: #Firefox (then Settings > Privacy)
• social media on a speedy browser—such as #unGoogled (but you must update)
• online banking, health, sysadmin & sensitive stuff on a hardened browser—such as #LibreWolf or #Mullvad's browser

#privacy #browsers #compartmentalisation #compartmentalization #safety #security #diversity #infoSec

"As a result of the DMA the tech giant allows to install other browsers as defaults. Apple ensured that these browsers can no longer use WebKit because it would make them faster than Safari. To this end, the tech giant blocked the WebKit API in iOS 17.4."
https://www.techzine.eu/news/privacy-compliance/116980/apples-changes-to-comply-with-the-dma-opens-new-european-antitrust-investigation/

#Apple #iPhone #DMA #WebKit #Web #rendering #FrontEnd #WebDev #PWA #Sideloading #AppleStore #browsers #monopoly #EU #Europe #privacy #security #Safari #iOS #iOS174 #competition #AntiCompetitive

Apple's changes to comply with the DMA opens new European antitrust investigation

Apple faces another EU competition investigation. This is the result of blocking so-called "progressive web applications" or PWAs in iOS 17.4. The change

Techzine Europe

@eric Let's #poll:

I propose an assessment of the situation before #Safari drops (deadline 6 March).
Which #browsers do you use across all your devices?

Safari
12.2%
Firefox
49%
Librewolf
6.1%
other browser motorised by Gecko
3.1%
Chrome
6.1%
Vivaldi
7.1%
Edge
1%
ungoogled-chromium
5.1%
other Chromium
4.1%
other Blink-motor'd (inc. Brave)
6.1%
Poll ended at .

Mozilla argues that browser choice only in the EU will make it more difficult for vendors to juggle different versions. “Apple’s proposals fail to give consumers viable choices by making it as painful as possible for others to provide competitive alternatives to Safari. This is another example of Apple creating barriers to prevent true browser #competition on #iOS.”

https://www.macstories.net/stories/apple-releases-ios-and-ipados-17-4-with-major-safari-and-app-store-changes-in-the-eu-transcripts-for-podcasts-new-emoji-and-more/

#Apple #iPhone #DMA #WebKit #FrontEnd #WebDev #PWA #AppleStore #browsers #EU #privacy #Safari #iOS174

Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 17.4 with Major Safari and App Store Changes in the EU, Transcripts for Podcasts, New Emoji, and More

Today, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 17.4, the fourth major updates to the operating systems that launched in September and Federico reviewed on MacStories. iOS 17.4 is a significant release, bringing major platform changes to iOS in Europe as part of Apple’s response to the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), as well as a handful

@eric @dushman
Two polls show that the usage of Google #Chrome is dwindling and that demand for #Librewolf is a strong child:

Which browsers do you use?
• Multiple choice to account for various usage and any device (pro & perso)
• You may boost to enlarge the sample

#browsers #poll #browserPoll #compartmentalization #compartments #Safari #SafariBrowser #Firefox #Librewolf #Chrome #Vivaldi #VivaldiBrowser #Edge #EdgeBrowser #ungoogledChromium #ungoogled #Chromium #Brave #BraveBrowser

Safari
11.2%
Firefox
38.2%
Librewolf
8.4%
other browser motorised by Gecko
4.3%
Chrome
10.6%
Vivaldi
8.7%
Edge
5.5%
ungoogled-chromium
5.5%
other Chromium
4.6%
other Blink-motor'd (inc. Brave)
2.9%
Poll ended at .
@estelle
Also, Startpage & DuckDuckGo

@robtherunt

The core browser functionality of the #DuckDuckGo browser is the WebView component provided by the operating system. This means that the browser engine is #Blink on Android and Windows [my last option], and WebKit on iOS and macOS [not an option in my poll].

@estelle where morph? it's webkit based and not listed… where lynx/links/elinks ???
@hacknorris
Sorry for the omission. I was only allowed ten lines!
@estelle and it could be simple:
- firefox
- librewolf
- other gecko-based
- chrome
- edge
- ungoogled chromium
- other blink-based
- safari
- other webkit-based
- other
covers everyone and fits perfectly ^_^
@hacknorris
Thank you for your suggestion.
Your improved list of again ten items would indeed cover every browser unlike mine!
@estelle
Fediverse is really a biased world! (80% Firefox!)
@estelle Unfortunately I need Edge for the IE mode due to cameras in which the ActiveX crap from MuckySof was used...
@estelle
Whoa. I expected Firefox to be over-represented in the Fedi, but this is way more than I thought.
@estelle Opera
@dhj1961
Opera's current browser engine is Blink, which it switched to in 2013 after previously using its own engine called Presto. Blink is part of the Chromium project.
@estelle duck duck go ?

@GythaOgg

Le moteur du navigateur #DuckDuckGo est le composant WebView fourni par le système d'exploitation. Cela signifie que le rendu est construit par #Blink sur Android et Windows [ma dernière option], et WebKit sur iOS et macOS [pas une option dans mon sondage].

@estelle plus Gnome Web (Epiphany) using WebKitGTK and Konqueror set to use KHTML.
@estelle I keep Chrome around for when a page completely doesn't work in Firefox, which sometimes happens. But it's not my first choice.
@estelle I used to be a diehard Chrome boy but I switched to Firefox.
@estelle

Vivaldi with all the extensions I can add usually, Edge occasionally.
Convenience mostly, but also reliability.

@estelle

My Lenovo tablet came with Opera. Fabulously quiet & devoid of adverts and popups.

@estelle I use the tor browser

@adisonverlice The #TorBrowser consists in a modified Mozilla Firefox ESR web browser, the TorButton, TorLauncher, NoScript and the Tor proxy. So you could have ticked the fourth line from the start: "motorised by Gecko".

Sorry for the complication.

@estelle and Waterfox

@hiker
#Waterfox is a fork of Mozilla Firefox. So you could have ticked the fourth line from the start: "motorised by Gecko".

Sorry for the complication.

@estelle

Vivaldi (voted for that) and Duckduckgo too (don't know under which category it falls😅)

Searchengine: Quant, sometimes DuckDuckGo

@v_d_richards
I certainly did not know either. But i searched for it – on DuckDuckGo 😄

The core browser functionality of the #DuckDuckGo browser is the WebView component provided by the operating system. This means that the browser engine is #Blink on Android and Windows [my last option], and WebKit on iOS and macOS [not an option in my poll].

Sorry for the complication.

@estelle The @mullvadnet browser

@dcnorris

The #mullvad browser was developed by the Tor project from a Firefox base. So you could tick the fourth line from the start: "motorised by Gecko".

Sorry for the complication.

@estelle Firefox home , edge corporate
@estelle Epiphany / WebKitGTK
@aperezdc @estelle it boils down to safari
@tusooa @estelle does it, though? Recently we have discovered that there are a number of tests (can't remember of WPT or WebKit's own layout tests) that pass for the @WebKitGTK and @WPEWebKit ports, but won't pass with Safari. That's because the graphics compositor is completely different, we use TextureMapper, while Apple ports offload work to CoreAnimation; and we have been improving TexMap lately—mostly to improve performance, but also with correctness fixes.

@aperezdc @tusooa

Next year i'll change the poll last line to "other" in order to try to resolve your indecision. (Because uncomfortable.)

I would suggest that your two statements are useful:
* for a user, Epiphany _often_ renders "resources" as Safari would;
* a web dev may need to go into details such as Purritto's.

@estelle
You missed bot like wget and links from terminal or scripts.

Since more and more web page /book /movie need no interaction and its only static info.

@ibrahim_cris

I missed many things!
I only had ten lines allowed and i should have proposed "other" as last one 🧐

@estelle it is missing Waterfox
@Waterfox

@kennergf

I did not know where to place Waterfox either. So i searched for it:

#Waterfox is a fork of Mozilla Firefox. So you could have ticked the fourth line from the start: "motorised by Gecko".

Sorry for the complication. I'll mention it next year.

Your device is likely to request pages with a "user agent" similar to:
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 Waterfox/56.6.2022.08"

@wilfredo

As i have learnt since placing the poll, Waterfox is a fork of Mozilla Firefox. So you could have ticked the fourth line from the start: "motorised by Gecko".

Sorry for the complication. I'll mention it next year.

@estelle
DuckDuckGo

@Mike_de_N

I would not know where to place DuckDuckGo. So i searched for it – on DuckDuckGo 😄

The core browser functionality of the DuckDuckGo browser is the WebView component provided by the operating system. This means that the browser engine is Blink on Android and Windows [my last option], and WebKit on iOS and macOS [not an option in my poll].

Sorry for the complication.