Mozilla is developing a new version of Firefox browser Firefox without WebKit engine for Apple iPhone / iPad

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Coje_He for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, February 8, according to foreign technology media The Register, Apple is about to release the restrictions on the rendering engine of web browsers. Google and Mozilla are preparing to develop browsers with non-WebKit engines for the iOS / iPadOS platform.

CTOnews.com queried the official GitHub repository of Mozilla and found that GeckoView (the wrapper of Firefox's own rendering engine Gecko) was already referenced in the code related to Firefox for iOS.

Apple's App Store rules currently require browser applications on iOS and iPadOS to use their official WebKit browser engine, which means that no Gecko-based version of Firefox can be released.

The application contains a settings page for switching GeckoView, which may be used for internal testing, but Mozilla software developers' posts on GitHub indicate that it is a "secondary project" and openly discuss "the right Gecko Firefox on iOS".

Last week, Google's Chromium team was working on a new Blink-based iOS browser, seemingly expecting Apple to change the rules of the platform.