> 3rd party browsers are forced to use a webkit engine instead of their own. By any definition, this adds a severe limitation => crippled.
Not only that but if WebKit has an exploit, all browsers have an exploit.
> I also think (I could be wrong) safari has access to a slightly different engine than third party browsers.
Correct, Chrome used to be based off WebKit's HTML rendering engine, which Google forked and created Blink instead. Firefox has their own engine (Gecko?) which is all being redone in Rust.
Not only that but if WebKit has an exploit, all browsers have an exploit.
> I also think (I could be wrong) safari has access to a slightly different engine than third party browsers.
Correct, Chrome used to be based off WebKit's HTML rendering engine, which Google forked and created Blink instead. Firefox has their own engine (Gecko?) which is all being redone in Rust.