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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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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
Please report bugs and crashes directly to Mozilla.
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Firefox Focus iOS: will we get multiple tabs support?
Someone opened a new Github issue to request it.
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Hacktoberfest Progress Week 1-2
I started with two issues later this week. Both of them were from the focus-ios application. Firefox Focus is a free and open-source privacy-focused mobile browser from Mozilla, available for Android and iOS smartphones and tablets. Focus-ios. I wanted to make progress with this application. I dug in and found two issues in which I would have thought to be working in. issue #1,[issue #1.1](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios/issues/2566. Another project, I worked on is which is a website to adopt pets. Website Link I worked on a small part of this project issue #2, but learn how to use react and yarn npm module to run and develop web applications.
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Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store
I use Firefox Focus on mobile which lets you reset your entire browser and cookie history with one click. It also has some built-in tracking protection and content blocking.
While it doesn’t solve the issue of add-ons, it has enough of a privacy focus to make me feel better about reducing my footprint on the mobile.
It’s a pity that development is not as active as it used to be, but looks like Firefox are still supporting the project [1]
uMatrix-issues
- is it possible to wildcard url?
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Test your Ad Blocking
Is it a good idea to be using uMatrix? I was under the impression that development on the project ended back in 2020, the code is archived and no longer actively maintained.
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No, uMatrix is not completely dead, and gosh no, uBlock does not replace it and NoScript whatsoever
uMatrix gives you control over the requests that websites make to other websites. Many websites integrate features which let other websites track you, such as Facebook Like Buttons or Google Analytics. uMatrix allows 1st party scripts in its default configuration. If you want the default functionality of NoScript consider blocking 1st party scripts everywhere by default. This addon has been discontinued.
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Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store
Raymond Hill has stopped developing uMatrix and also stopped accepting PRs because it's currently too much work for him [1]. So be aware that bugs will probably not be fixed.
1: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uMatrix-issues/issues/291#is...
What are some alternatives?
bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
FilterLists - :shield: The independent, comprehensive directory of filter and host lists for advertisements, trackers, malware, and annoyances.
pihole-regex - Custom regex filter list for use with Pi-hole.
uMatrix - uMatrix: Point and click matrix to filter net requests according to source, destination and type
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.
Neat-URL - Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as Google Analytics' utm parameters.
bypass-paywalls-chrome - Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.
pihole-updatelists - Update Pi-hole's lists from remote sources easily
web-bugs - A place to report bugs on websites.