It also has a “run at startup” permission! And as already has been pointed out, it includes Google Play Services, which can be used to spy on the user. If Mozilla really cared about user privacy, they would include all the blockers in their main Firefox app and enable them by default.

Most importantly, it has an “Open with Firefox” button, which lets you switch to Firefox as soon as you can’t do what you need to do with Firefox Focus. And there is a trash button that wipes out everything and closes the browser. It includes an ad blocker, an analytic blocker, a social tracker blocker, an an “other content tracker” blocker (these are all good things). It has no bookmarks, no history, and no tabs.

For example, it has no control over cookies or JavaScript. I wonder what the way forward is when it comes to a browser that is free as in freedom, what is the most promising project today?įirefox Focus is designed on purpose to not be a browser that a person can use as their daily driver. Has the way Mozilla has decided to take the project (blobs from untrusted third parties, inclusion of non-free add-ons etc.) simply taken it too far away from the ideals of freedom that F-Droid is based upon so that inclusion is simply not possible without a major rewrite or are the issues more practical with a complicated and cumbersome building process that would require huge amounts of work to include and maintenance to keep up?Įdit: Here is their blog post about the release:īy using words like “consumer” I’m guessing their focus is not on freedom. I understand that there are some major issues with Firefox inclusion but I do not know the details or the current status. What would it take to get Firefox Focus into F-Droid, is it feasible? Just found that Mozilla released a new version of Firefox for Android called Firefox Focus, with focus on being better at protecting user privacy.

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