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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.
syncthing
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Platform issues which disadvantage Firefox compared to first-party browsers
My biggest gripe with Firefox on Android is that sometimes I enter a domain in the address bar, press enter and nothing happens.
This behaviour seems to be erratic and only affects a few websites, such as https://forum.syncthing.net.
Closing the tab or using a different one doesn't solve the problem. I need to force close the app to fix this.
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Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?
Syncthing has had on their roadmap for 9.5 years to support iOS but hasn’t due to lack of interest by the developers to devote the time to make it.
https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/102
macOS is supported though.
And Syncthing via 3rd parties does support iOS.
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Syncthing problems
I haven't been able to access https://docs.syncthing.net or https://forum.syncthing.net/ but I was able to access some of the docs via github. I think I've set it up according to the docs. The logs contain lots of messages like:
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iCloud Drive silently deletes your content
Malware built into iOS makes it impossible to install Syncthing[0], which is a problem for most of the people who use iCloud tp sync their files.
[0] https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/102
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Veilid is an open-source, P2P, mobile-first, networked application framework
https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/8423
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Why is There no Official Flatpak Version?
They seem to have chosen Docker instead of Flatpak. You can get it with Docker by running:
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The holy grail of note-taking: Private data, efficient methodology and P2P encrypted sync across all your devices
syncthing is fully open sourced and distributed under MPL-2 licenses, while dropbox is not!
- Keep SD Cards in sync
- Continuous File Sync Written in Go Trending on GitHub
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Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
You could try to force QUIC which should handle latency a bit better. The priority of TCP/QUIC will be configurable with the upcoming v1.23.5 release:
https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/8868
What are some alternatives?
bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
Nextcloud - ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data
uMatrix - uMatrix: Point and click matrix to filter net requests according to source, destination and type
rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files
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.
Samba - https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba is the Official GitLab mirror of https://git.samba.org/samba.git -- Merge requests should be made on GitLab (not on GitHub)
Neat-URL - Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as Google Analytics' utm parameters.
Seafile - High performance file syncing and sharing, with also Markdown WYSIWYG editing, Wiki, file label and other knowledge management features.
copy-true-link - An add-on that copies True Link URL as shown at the status bar
Git Annex
webextensions-examples - Example Firefox add-ons created using the WebExtensions API
Go IPFS - IPFS implementation in Go [Moved to: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo]