Firefox Focus Community Forum

Hello Mozilla community,

I've been a dedicated user of Firefox Focus for its privacy-centric browsing experience. However, I feel like I'm only scratching the surface of what this browser has to offer in terms of protecting my online privacy.

I'm interested in delving deeper into the privacy features that Firefox Focus provides. Could someone please share some insights on how to make the most of features like tracking prevention, automatic data clearing, and the overall enhanced privacy settings? Are there any lesser-known tips or settings I should be aware of?

Moreover, I'm curious about the compatibility of Firefox Focus with various platforms and devices. Does it function similarly across desktop and mobile? Are there any differences in terms of privacy features or settings between the two?

I believe that by learning more about Firefox Focus, I can take better control of my online privacy and security. Thank you for sharing your expertise and helping me make the most of this fantastic browser.

I am trying to add start page to firefox focus as a browser it says server not found. It wouldn’t even allow me to login my account on android phone. When I went to log in my account. The sign up page would never open. It would show a blue circle and go round and round in a circle never opened. I had to open this request on another phone. My IP address is [edited] My phone is pixel 3 Google phone. I can never screenshoot pictures of the error I have also take pictures from another phone. It wouldn’t allow me to send pictures of the one that says server not found. Someone is working the backend of this phone hope to get a response from you.

I can't figure out why Firefox Focus for Android is opening Amazon links by default. It isn't set as the default browser, as far as I can tell it doesn't have anything set to open by default. Usually I have the option to choose which browser to open a link with because I have multiple browsers installed.

I'm using a Galaxy s22 Ultra running Android 13. Any suggestions would be appreciated

I'm switching from SRWare Iron to Firefox Focus. I'm liking it, and I appreciate the danger of feature creep on an intentionally pared-down product. But, some features I do miss, in order of importance (to me):

1. An option to open a new (blank) tab - I often want to search for more than one thing, and opening a link I don't want jtst to get a tab is a poor workaround
2. The ability (either an option or by default) to stop sites from blocking pinch zoom - on a phone, sometimes small items are hard to tap accurately
3. Gestures, nice to haves, but I'm accustomed to them:

   # Address bar swipe to switch tabs
   # Pull down to refresh

I think pretty much everything else I can live without, or actively prefer not to have!

After using Firefox focus for a while on the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra I will sometimes start seeing screen flickering which will affect the entire OS. Opening my keyboard and doing app switches will show tons of flickering as well but closing Firefox focus seems to make the issue go away.

Thank our Father for lives all around Nation, I need help with focusing on tapping without focusing missing data that unsafe for my phone I been going on 14 years google I didn't realize till woke up from sleep

Hi, I'm having a he'll of a time trying to figure out what version I should firefox version I should download & where for mobile without using google. The mozilla site keeps redirecting me to use Google version. & Google version won't let me use the YouTube addons to download. Basically I want a version that will use ALL the add-ons instead of the limited amount the mobile firefox offers & use a version like that of a desktop computer. A version that let's you use all add-ons available on desktop computer just the same on a mobile device. My device is a Samsung Note 10 if that helps

Following on from a reply by Paul to [edited] 8@gmail.com (thank you for your help) My Android version is:- 114.2.0 (build # 371701526 114.0.2 - 20230619081400) f986bd245f AS: 114.1

Having asked this question your replies wanting a screenshot etc have told me to reply using threads. I am not tech savvy & have no idea what they are or how to access them

I sent in this request the other day. Paul replied to me last night to [edited from public] @gmail.com. He asked me to send a screenshot of my problem, but I can't send that on the email system he used Keith Holmes

Hi there, Lately I've been experiencing this issue where the browser would stop opening any website, search, or redirect and would just remain in a non loading state. The only way I found to remedy this was to either reinstall or clear data from the device, however the problem shows up again later.

The device that I'm experiencing this issue on is; OnePlus 8T Model KB2000 Color OS 13.

Thank you.

You have firefox focus browser, firefox focus browser (beta), firefox focus beta for testers and firefox focus nightly (early access). I tried all 4 of them but i couldn't find any difference between the 4 types of firefox focus. So i was wondering why does those 4 exist if there is no difference or am i missing something?

In profile on Desktop, my phone doesn't even show up as one of my devices with Firefox browser, tho it's been on there for years. So long, I'd forgotten I'd chosen Focus. Is it so private even Firefox doesn't know about it?

Does syncing require that I ALSO download Firefox ADHD in order to sync with my desktop?

Thanks, c8

I have a 8" Android 10 tablet with FF Focus as a default browser. Half the width of screen is taken by four buttons (back, forward, reload and trash). On the phone I only have one (trash). I'd like to have similarly simple view on the tablet with only one button in front of address bar instead of four, since on a small tablet this creates clutter (often I can't see even a short address, only a domain name fits). Is it possible to achieve?

Thank you in advance for any ideas.

Hey, just wanted to bring awareness to the popout video player being broken in FFfocus on android (on my samsung S21, anyway) as of the latest stable FFfocus update.

As i move the video box up my screen, the video shrinks down, and the box gets filled by a black border. By the time the video player is at the top of the screen, the whole box is pure black.

P.S. this is a throwaway email (sorry), so i wont be able to respond. I just wanted to give a heads up, and the google play rep, told me to make a post here.

Some other potential worthwhile info Android 12 Samsung OneUI version - doesnt seem to matter Web video player doesnt matter

Thanks for making the best web browsers for the past 20 years!