A year-end wrap-up from LWN [LWN.net]

A year-end wrap-up from LWN

Posted Dec 21, 2019 8:11 UTC (Sat) by roc (subscriber, #30627)
In reply to: A year-end wrap-up from LWN by flussence
Parent article: A year-end wrap-up from LWN

Android Firefox Focus switched from WebView to GeckoView in 2018:
https://support.mozilla.org/mk/kb/geckoview-firefox-focus...
It never used Chromium.

iOS Firefox Focus used Webkit and still does because Apple gives you no choice on iOS.

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Posted Dec 21, 2019 21:29 UTC (Sat) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (3 responses)

> It never used Chromium.

Then what's WebView? Webkit? Opera??

Posted Dec 22, 2019 1:33 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (1 responses)

> Then what's WebView? Webkit? Opera??

Webview is WebKit. Not Chromium

Posted Dec 27, 2019 20:57 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

I stand corrected. Didn't know my Android 6 phone used WebKit.

Posted Dec 22, 2019 1:34 UTC (Sun) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]

It's Blink, but AFAIK doesn't use the non-Blink parts of Chromium. I guess it would be fair to say Android Webview uses part of Chromium.