Also published were some interesting feature comparisons using Microsoft Edge’s top developer needs dashboard highlighting a number of features the prototype supports that Safari (and by extension of Apple’s browser engine ban, all other browsers on iOS) do not.
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“Microsoft engineers have published benchmark results showing that a Chromium-based browser using its own rendering engine scores 28.6% higher than Safari on Apple's own Speedometer 3.1 performance test on iOS”
www.macrumors.com/2026/06/17/w...
Speedometer is a browser benchmark originally developed by Apple. Apple’s WebKit team described Speedometer as “the best way yet to measure browser performance”.
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Even in the EU and Japan where Apple is now legally required to allow browser vendors to use their own engines, the barriers it has put in place ensure browser vendors are prevented from porting their own engines to iOS.
📖Read more:
open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-...
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