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A semantic nitpick that is totally irrelevant. Most people on this website usually mean Gecko when they say they want to use Firefox.

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Really? You mean people don't use Firefox because:

- it protects what's important

- you can "Personalize your experience with new colorways."

- has Facebook Container

- syncs across your devices

Mozilla knows the actual engine isn't the deciding factor when trying to get people to change browsers.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

You're on about regular Firefox, not iOS Firefox which is just a UI wrapped around a WebKit component.

All of those features are possible on iOS via webkit.

Regarding mobile browsers specifically, their advantage over Safari here is blocking cryptominer scripts and autoplay videos: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/mobile/compar...

Adblocking only works* on vanilla Safari. I haven't gotten it to work on Firefox for iOS.

* For some degree of "works", ublock origin is way better

iOS as blocking isn't anywhere near as powerful as Firefox extensions, not what it will eventually need to be.

But that's not the point-we want gecko and we want it to be good!

The colorways were an antifeature to me (seriously what's the point of introducing a feature when you're already planning to drop it 2 months later) and I'm still waiting for real containers on mobile (the fb one is useless to me as I don't use Facebook) but the other features yeah they're great

Let's not pretend all of HN is a hive mind. I for one thought that Firefox the browser had chosen not to be on IOS because to they couldn't use Gecko. This is new information to me.

So no, using the proper names for things is not a semantic nitpick. The commentator didn't not try to invalidate the parent's point, just show the language issue.

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