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Longhanks on March 21, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Safari 9.1

But due to the nature of closed iOS, Chrome on iOS uses the same engine as Safari...

joshschreuder on March 21, 2016 [–]

Indeed. Up until recently, Chrome for iOS was actually a lot slower than Safari as it was yet to switch to WKWebView from UIWebView.

Doing so yielded much better performance:

https://blog.chromium.org/2016/01/a-faster-more-stable-chrom...

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