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Chrome and Firefox may use WebKit but have very different looks and feels and some different functionality. They’re not just “skins”.

>>parasu+(OP)
They use a Cocoa feature called [WkWebView] (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkwebview) which is an embedded webkit browser. Any functionality that differs from Safari is not part of the actual "browser". It's just "skin" on top of it. (Bookmark syncing, etc)

>>parasu+(OP)
Not really different. They even share bugs.

If Safari team messes up their rendering engine, then iOS update, and it is broken for every iOS browser...

>>noblea+Wa
WkWebView is a web renderer and partial navigator, it's not a browser.

My point is that people are really stretching the term "skin". Bookmark syncing, tab & window management, history management, security management etc. all are features of a browser, and they have a major impact on the UX of that browser. They are WHY there are still users of Firefox or Chrome on iOS! They're not "skin" features, which typically imply minor look & feel related items.

>>sccxy+1D1
Do you use any of them regularly? I do. They're very different UX-wise.

My point is that users don't really care about the common rendering engine. It doesn't have much impact on the day to day UX.