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> mozilla and google still wont invest in a browser engine port

The reason they won't do this is because they would't be able to JIT execute in their App Store app, which would make their browser seem unbearably slow.

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While you're right that JIT isn't allowed on App Store, the issue with browser is you can only use built-in Safari webview for rendering websites. So all browsers on the App Store is a shell for Safari webview

My argument stands even if the "you must use WebKit" guideline is dropped. There's no point in writing a browser without WebKit because you just can't get good performance out of it.

This isn't true either. https://github.com/jcs/endless

The Github page says it's a wrapper around UIWebView, so it's still a form of WebKit provided by iOS.

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