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Android is a fenced garden compared to the fortress that is iOS.
I'm pretty sure the term jailbreak comes from the term "jail" being used on FreeBSD, which iOS is based on, which is an application sandboxing tool, therefore, a "jailbreak" is a method to escape that sandbox and gain elevated permissions to the system.
iOS being a jail is a pretty apt analogy, regardless, though.
I guess, but it's like a 2 foot high fence
Did the same on iOS… not a huge difference. Download app from store, set as default.
On iOS the browser isn’t really Firefox. It’s just a re-skinned Safari due to apples rules. I think now they are allowed to ship their own engines
They are but it's not ready AFAIK https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882872
Can't wait to use it though and be able to install WebExtensions.
Yeah but the thread is talking about picking the default browser on Android. Which is unrelated to this post. iOS users can set the default browser... The user simply commented that they have been able to do that for a long time.