Firefox Focus is a special version of Firefox released by Mozilla recently, available for iPhone and for Android smartphones, which is proposed as a browser to protect online privacy, for private browsing on the internet, capable of automatically blocking any type of tracking such as advertising. Firefox Focus is not a browser to be kept as default for surfing the internet from a mobile phone, but rather a tool to be used when you want to surf the internet without leaving any trace of the sites visited on the phone and to view the web without advertising, ideal for opening here links to sites full of banners and pop-ups, sites that can be dangerous, that you don't want to appear in the history.
Firefox Focus is a light, simple and essential browser, with no tabs or special options for browsing, only with the aim of viewing websites privately and as quickly as possible .
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Download Firefox Focus for iPhone or Android and start it to immediately indicate the address of the site to be opened.
There are no favorites in this browser, there is no start page, there is no history either; each site must be opened by writing its address.
Firefox Focus has only the private or incognito mode, the one that can also be used by Chrome and Firefox, so as not to remember the visited site and not to store cookies.
In Focus not only cookies are not stored, but they are even blocked and not loaded.
Browsing history is automatically cleared when the browser is closed.
Focus shows a notification if it remains open in the background, so you can then end it directly by tapping the notification.
The result is that the websites will be displayed without advertising as with an adblock, without social media buttons like Facebook Like and without sending statistics to the site operators.
Furthermore, in the browser options, it is also possible to block other tracer elements such as external fonts embedded in a site and other contents.
These blocks can, however, lead to a bad browsing experience because videos and images may no longer be displayed.
Firefox Focus uses the lists provided by Disconnect, the plugin to keep searches private, so as to disable advertisements that track online habits.
Firefox Focus on Android can also be set, in the options, as the default web browser to open links even if I think it would be very penalizing, in everyday life, to use Focus instead of Chrome or normal Firefox.
Focus for Android has in fact some limitations, first of all the impossibility of creating multiple navigation tabs.
Focus is one of the best browsers for browsing the iPhone privately .
Since there is no PC version, I refer anyone interested in the article on private browsers that protect privacy and do not transmit personal data .
