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		the_gipsy on Feb 25, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tired of Safari Also, apple only allows using the UIWebView, so Chrome for iOS is just safari's engine with a better interface: https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/ios/overview And in previous iOS releases, the UIWebView had a significantly worse performance than safari: http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/nitro_ios_43 Both cases are explained as security measures. But they are coincidentally degrading web applications' performance, which benefits Apple's app store revenue.

evadne on Feb 25, 2015 | [–]

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=423444

TazeTSchnitzel on Feb 25, 2015 | [–]

iOS added WKWebView.

dimillian on Feb 25, 2015 | [–]

WKWebview is good for a very simple in app link opener, if you want to do a full featured browser around it (Chrome iOS), the public API is nowhere near ready for that.

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