“Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are ‘as painful as possible’ for Firefox”

Emma Roth, writing at The Verge:

“We are still reviewing the technical details but are extremely disappointed with Apple’s proposed plan to restrict the newly-announced BrowserEngineKit to EU-specific apps,” DeMonte says. “The effect of this would be to force an independent browser like Firefox to build and maintain two separate browser implementations — a burden Apple themselves will not have to bear.”

Out of all of the things Apple is being forced to do by the EU, this is the one I really wish we were getting here in the US. I understand why they want to keep control here, but I’d really like to be able to use Firefox, and Arc on my iPad and iPhone. I hope this one spreads sooner than later.