XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.sys.mac.system   
   From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> Given this is a set of operating system and Firefox newsgroups, the point   
   >> is that Chromium always places HTML on the clipboard along with plain text,   
   >> while Firefox often provides only plain text on all consumer platforms.   
   >   
   > I wonder what you mean by "consumer platforms" ... ?   
      
   Hi Lawrence,   
      
   That's a fair-enough question for us to ponder... where I mostly had meant   
   the most common ecosystems owned by people like us that run FF & Chrome.   
      
   Such as Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iOS/iPadOS.   
      
   Although, technically, neither Firefox nor Chromium actually run on iOS or   
   iPadOS due to Apple's WebKit requirement, so they're really just paint-like   
   meaningless skins over Safari's engine rather than true Gecko or Blink.   
      
   That's why iOS/iPadOS can never have the privacy of the real Tor browser.   
      
   To your point, though, since, for example, ChromeOS runs both Firefox &   
   Chromium natively (Firefox through the Linux subsystem, Chromium as the   
   system browser), it probably should also qualify as a consumer platform as   
   well.   
      
   And if we broaden the definition even slightly, we can add the various BSDs   
   and even Illumos/Solaris derivatives, all of which have working ports of   
   Firefox and Chromium despite not being Linux at all.   
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