


And on iOS, it now supports Siri shortcuts for better integration with Apple's voice-control technology. The new Focus also is updated with new icon styling to better match new mobile operating systems, Google's Android and Apple's iOS. That's something many of us have become used to, so it should make Firefox more like ordinary browsers - though the feature is disabled by default for privacy reasons. The new Focus brings it a bit closer to an ordinary browser with the ability to show suggestions from search engines when you start typing in the address bar, Mozilla said in a blog post. But putting Gecko in Focus means there's a bit more browser diversity out there, a move that could encourage web developers not to become too fixated on supporting only Google's dominant Chrome browser. You may not care much which engine powers your mobile browser, as long as it works. Thank you for all your tremendous support for our Firefox Focus for Android app. The new version, though, uses Mozilla's own Gecko engine instead, a move Mozilla says will speed up browsing with its Quantum-branded technology. Since the launch of Firefox Focus for Android less than a month ago, one million users have downloaded our fast, simple privacy browser app. When it first arrived on Android, it used the built-in Google software for showing web pages. Firefox Focus, Mozilla's lightweight mobile browser, became a little more like an ordinary browser and a lot more like regular Firefox on Tuesday.įocus is a stripped-down browser initially designed for spur-of-the moment web interactions, blocking ad trackers and keeping no browsing history so you get more privacy.
