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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.
Neat-URL
- With less than a day to go, I'm considering getting into Pathfinder with the Humble Bundle, is it worth it?
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ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs
Looks like the syntax used by NeatURL, see https://github.com/Smile4ever/Neat-URL#parameter-rules
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Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store
Check out Neat URL - it's more basic, uses a comma-separated list of rules, and comes with some hard-coded presets you can override. I maintain my list in a text file and just update that and copy/paste in when I want to create one.
Of the defaults, I only override "cid, mbid" as blocking those on every site has ended up breaking some.
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queryprune doesn't work properly on amazon
I think only NeatURL removes these https://github.com/Smile4ever/Neat-URL
What are some alternatives?
bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
ClearURLs-Addon - ClearURLs is an add-on based on the new WebExtensions technology and will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy.
uMatrix - uMatrix: Point and click matrix to filter net requests according to source, destination and type
ClearUrls
clean-links - What happens in your browser, stays in your browser.
copy-true-link - An add-on that copies True Link URL as shown at the status bar
Rules - Rules database of the ClearURLs WebExtension.
webextensions-examples - Example Firefox add-ons created using the WebExtensions API
uMatrix-issues - This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uMatrix
uBlock-issues - This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin
uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.