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focus-ios
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Platform issues which disadvantage Firefox compared to first-party browsers
When Mozilla launched Focus for iOS in 2016, Apple had two WebKit implementations on iOS. Focus was implemented with UIWebView (slower, with more extensive content blocking capabilities), while Firefox was implemented with WKWebView (faster, with limited content blocking capabilities).[1]
Focus was Mozilla's way of offering Tracking Protection on iOS in some form without slowing down the performance of its main Firefox for iOS app. In addition to blocking ads within the Focus browser itself, Focus also provided iOS content blockers, which ironically (due to iOS content blockers being exclusive to Safari) allowed Focus users to block ads in Safari but not in Firefox for iOS.[2]
Focus migrated to WKWebView in 2017 after iOS 11 bridged WKWebView's feature gap, allowing Focus to retain its Tracking Protection feature through the transition.[3] With Firefox and Focus both on WKWebView, Mozilla then ported Tracking Protection to Firefox for iOS in 2018.[4] Tracking Protection improved Firefox for iOS, but could not be as comprehensive as the Safari-exclusive content blockers.
By that time, Mozilla had already launched Focus for Android in 2017 even though Firefox for Android already had the ability to block ads more comprehensively with extensions.[4] As a privacy-focused secondary browser, Focus was a niche app that turned out to be well-received by users, and Mozilla probably did not have a good reason to discontinue it even after Firefox for iOS gained Tracking Protection.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12977855
[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/introducing-fir...
[3] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios/issues/274
[4] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/latest-firefox-...
[5] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-focus-n...
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Firefox Focus for iOS: why can I only have four bookmarks?
Feature request is at https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios/issues/2970 but it's been stale for a year.
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Focus now opens links in app? No!
The next update is supposed to fix this: Links should not open outside of Focus by default.
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Anyone use Firefox Focus on iOS 16? It crashes the entire OS, not just the app!
Just did, I'll link it here too just in case: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios/issues/3673
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Mobile Firefox Focus: Anyone feel weird about the spacing around elements?
Github: Firefox Focus for iOS
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Love Focus but it keeps crashing
Try reinstalling the app. If the problem persists, please use this page report crashes and bugs.
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Firefox Focus no longer allows copying a link without visiting the link. Anyone know how to turn this behavior off?
Someone mentioned this on Github months ago: Setting to disable link previews.
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Firefox Focus crashes on iOS 15
Please go to this page and click on New issue to report crashes and bugs.
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Firefox Focus App is Bloated
You can report issues directly to the developers of Firefox Focus for iOS on Github.
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Firefox Focus iOS: will we get multiple tabs support?
Someone opened a new Github issue to request it.
ClearURLs-Addon
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Implement URL cleaner
Ever heard of the ClearURLs Browser-Addon. It's also available for Firefox for Android.
- I am now done with Instagram, they are all high AF
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Link Cleaner: Web app for removing unnecessary parameters and other junk from URLs
Don't know why you're being down voted for being cautious? I may not personally get it but it's never bad being cautious. If it does help, ClearURLs is open source so anyone can see the code.
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I have 49 add-ons enabled, how can I switch between a different configuration of addons as needed ? (other than running a private window)
13. ClearURLs 1.26.0 (Disabled) Remove tracking elements from URLs. https://docs.clearurls.xyz
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Cover is now listed as part of the Growth Market in the Tokyo Stock Exchange starting today, March 27th.
But yeah totally agree with you, for other people like me and that don't want to waste time manually editing URLs I can recommend the Open Link With... app on Android and the ClearURLs extension for browsers (Firefox/Chromium)
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Brave – copy clean link feature
For those looking for similar functionality in Firefox, Chrome, and Edge, I've been using ClearURLs[0] for several years in Firefox and Firefox on Android. It works well.
0: https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon
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Is there any way to set ClearURL extension to save more than 100 logs?
ClearURLs has an official support forum.
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China accused of illegal police stations in Netherlands
You can use the ClearURLs addon. I've been using it for years. It's not perfect, but it automatically removes a lot of tracking stuff. Everyone should be using it actually.
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ClearURLs is there a way to Whitelist or ?
ClearURLs feature request: Turn off/on on specific websites.
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URL stripping?
maybe this https://docs.clearurls.xyz ??
What are some alternatives?
bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
uMatrix - uMatrix: Point and click matrix to filter net requests according to source, destination and type
Neat-URL - Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as Google Analytics' utm parameters.
uBlock-issues - This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin
copy-true-link - An add-on that copies True Link URL as shown at the status bar
ClearUrls
webextensions-examples - Example Firefox add-ons created using the WebExtensions API
Universal-Bypass - Don't waste your time with compliance. Universal Bypass circumvents annoying link shorteners.
iceraven-browser - Iceraven Browser