

The EU will implement a new Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the spring of 2023 which aims to regulate the growing power and influence of tech giants on the digital market and end anti-competitive practices to provide small businesses opportunities to flourish. The brief public discussion of the GitHub issue suggests Mozilla has anticipated that Apple’s rules may change – something sought by Mozilla and others through ongoing regulatory lobbying. While the requested Firefox for iOS settings page for toggling GeckoView could be for internal browser testing, it appears to be something more. The report explains that Mozilla posted an issue in the Github repository which contained code for a Firefox for iOS version with reference to Geckoview which indicates that the company is preparing for upcoming changes in App Store’s rules. In the future, Firefox for iOS might be based on Gecko not WebKit Since all Firefox OS apps are Web apps, Firefox OS uses Gecko as its app runtime as well.


This means that Gecko includes, among other things, a networking stack, graphics stack, layout engine, a JavaScript virtual machine, and porting layers. Zoom for iPhone adds support for Dynamic Island, dark mode for Calendar and more
