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Chrome on iOS embeds its own network stack, which it touts as being faster and more fully-featured than Safari’s.



The Safari network stack is actually pretty good. It has good SSL/TLS support and does SPDY pretty well.


It still uses the IP iOS stack, right?


I’d guess so. The original Chrome for iOS announcement [1] said:

it’s been challenging to re-use critical Chromium infrastructure components. That said, there is a lot of code we do leverage, such as the network layer, the sync and bookmarks infrastructure, omnibox, metrics and crash reporting, and a growing portion of content.

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!...


Until your battery goes flat. Oops.


Precisely the reason I don't care that the other big browser engines can't be ported to iOS. Their concern for battery life/power drain is so low that there's zero chance I'd use them anyway. I don't even use them on the "desktop" (laptop) anymore, for that reason.




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