focus-ios VS uMatrix

Compare focus-ios vs uMatrix and see what are their differences.

focus-ios

⚠️ Firefox Focus (iOS) has moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios (by mozilla-mobile)

uMatrix

uMatrix: Point and click matrix to filter net requests according to source, destination and type (by gorhill)
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focus-ios uMatrix
16 68
1,260 4,134
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9.3 3.4
24 days ago over 3 years ago
Swift JavaScript
Mozilla Public License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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focus-ios

Posts with mentions or reviews of focus-ios. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-19.
  • Platform issues which disadvantage Firefox compared to first-party browsers
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jan 2024
    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...

  • Firefox Focus for iOS: why can I only have four bookmarks?
    2 projects | /r/firefox | 9 Jun 2023
    Feature request is at https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios/issues/2970 but it's been stale for a year.
    2 projects | /r/firefox | 9 Jun 2023
    Report issues
  • Anyone use Firefox Focus on iOS 16? It crashes the entire OS, not just the app!
    2 projects | /r/firefox | 28 Jan 2023
    Just did, I'll link it here too just in case: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios/issues/3673
    2 projects | /r/firefox | 28 Jan 2023
    Please report bugs and crashes directly to Mozilla.
  • Firefox Focus iOS: will we get multiple tabs support?
    2 projects | /r/firefox | 16 Apr 2022
    Someone opened a new Github issue to request it.
  • Hacktoberfest Progress Week 1-2
    2 projects | dev.to | 22 Oct 2021
    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.
  • Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2021
    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]

    1: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios

uMatrix

Posts with mentions or reviews of uMatrix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-03.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing focus-ios and uMatrix you can also consider the following projects:

uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

nuTensor - nuTensor: Point and click matrix to filter net requests according to source, destination and type

privacybadger - Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block invisible trackers.

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.

noscript - The popular NoScript Security Suite browser extension.

Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements

uMatrix-issues - This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uMatrix

brave-browser - Next generation Brave browser for Android, Linux, macOS, Windows.

uBlock-issues - This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin

govuk-puppet - Decommissioned: Puppet manifests that used to provision the legacy GOV.UK stack.