New? How come I've been using it for years?
It seems OP is just now discovering this.
I have been using it for a while too.
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#22There's also the duckduckgo app, which seems similar to this, although not sure how they differ. https://duckduckgo.com/app
On Android, Focus appears to use the Gecko renderer. My guess is that the DDG app uses the system webview.
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#23I installed Firefox Focus for iOS simply for its content blocker. I still prefer using mobile safari, but augmented with three content blockers:
- Firefox Focus, which blocks all sorts of stuff
- 1Blocker, which blocks all sorts of stuff
- Unobstruct, which blocks Medium's "dickbar" popups.
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#24Have been using this a while, it's really nice as the default browser to open links in. Having the floating button to clear everything is neat and I like the UI desing. It's also really fast. I'd like to see better support for getting SSL/TLS info - why can't I tap on the padlock and get the certificate info (EV, OV, DV?), cipher suite, HSTS etc?
Yeah that would be cool. Do you know of any iOS apps that currently support this?
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#25According to F-Droid [1], it contains `com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics`. [1]: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/issues/171#note_30410376
I'm relatively uninformed here, but Google often requires Android app developers to bundle Google Play Services for various features like Chromecast[1]. It is possible that the Mozilla folks needed Google Play Services for some feature. [1]: https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/android_sender_setup
I'm a developer, and I've worked with this before, but the library included here has only the purpose of analytics, and is not required for anything else.
Re: Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android
#26According to F-Droid [1], it contains `com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics`. [1]: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/issues/171#note_30410376
This is odd because https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/org.mozilla.klar is already part of F-Droid and appears exactly the same .. but with a different name.
> " Firefox Klar is a version of Firefox Focus for Germany, Austria and Switzerland with user activity tracking disabled by default." [1]
> "For clients that have "send anonymous usage data" enabled Focus sends a "core" ping and an "event" ping to Mozilla's telemetry service. Sending telemetry can be disabled in the app's settings. Builds of "Focus for Android" have telemetry enabled by default ("opt-out") while builds of "Klar for Android" have telemetry disabled by default." [2]
[1]: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.klar/
[2]: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/wiki/Telemet...
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is odd because https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/org.mozilla.klar is already part of F-Droid and appears exactly the same .. but with a different name.
> " Firefox Klar is a version of Firefox Focus for Germany, Austria and Switzerland with user activity tracking disabled by default." [1] > "For clients that have "send anonymous usage data" enabled Focus sends a "core" ping and an "event" ping to Mozilla's telemetry service. Sending telemetry can be disabled in the app's settings. Builds of "Focus for Android" have telemetry enabled by default ("opt-out") while buil…
What's special about Germany, Austria and Switzerland that they don't get the user activity tracking?
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#29I wouldn't consider tabs 'every beta bell and whistle' :-/
If you can live without tabs, try it, it's great.
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#30I like this app a lot -- very fast and convenient. Could this someday integrate Tor, making it sort of an amnesiac Tor Browser for mobile?
It is already planned to be implemented into the Ebony milestone, which itself is planned to be released on October 12 of this year.
This is the relevant issue on their GitHub repo: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/issues/66
edit: Please note that this is for the Android version only.