I feel it's safer these days to assume any digital product that's owned by a Chinese parent company is compromised, than assuming it isn't.
After the recent Chrome debacles, I removed it from my systems (not that I was using it much before). On iOS, my go to browser is Firefox Focus, a single tab browser that you treat as a private tab and erase quickly when you're done. It comes with a built in ad blocker too. Next in line for my use are Brave and Firefox. They're different, have good interfaces, and support multiple tabs. Last on my list is Safari.<p>The only thing that sucks about browsers on iOS is that extensions are not supported by the platform. I'd love to have Firefox extensions work on it, but that seems as unlikely as having another browser/JS engine on the platform.
On iOS, there can’t really be an alternative to Safari because there is no way to change the default browser system wide.<p>No matter how careful you are, eventually some app somewhere will open an URL, causing Safari to open, but now that it’s not your default browser, all your login state, your favorites and, heck, even just the familiar UI will be missing.<p>No. Until iOS allows setting a default browser, there is no point to accept this kind of friction and at least I myself feel much better off just using Safari and getting a consistent browser experience even if an app opens an URL.
This link is so bare.<p>Can anyone improve on the horse's mouth: <a href="https://www.opera.com/mobile/touch" rel="nofollow">https://www.opera.com/mobile/touch</a> , which also says practically nothing.<p>Opera seem to be great at adding features, and yet very poor at promoting them.
I would love to use other browsers on iOS, including Brave, but I can’t.<p>All the browsers on iOS suffer from one fatal flaw, they crash, often. As I have been told this may have something to do with the OS’s health & safety precautions by killing apps that run away with CPU or RAM use. I don’t know that for certain and I haven’t tried to dig into it further.<p>Here’s a simple test, find a site that grinds safari to a near standstill, then try that site in Chrome/Edge/Brave on iOS. Chances are it will crash them.<p>I’d really love to see a healthy ecosystem of browser rendering engines on iOS as well. I understand and have benefited from the walled garden that is iOS but I’d really like Apple to figure this out. Isn’t it ironic how Microsoft got in trouble for anti-competitive practices against Netscape but Apple can block other rendering engines?
I love Opera, I've been using it for about a year now. Its leagues ahead in most things, although I've started using edge on android because its significantly faster load times.
They rushed to get it out of beta without making sure that things like sites with self signed certificates are rendered.<p>Just visit<p><a href="https://badssl.com/" rel="nofollow">https://badssl.com/</a><p>and see what happens when browsing that site.
this app does one thing I like—it launches with the keyboard active. at least sometimes. I use Drafts specifically because it has this feature. Firefox Focus does too. I wish the Google app would always launch with the keyboard up.