Firefox Focus

Firefox Focus
Developer(s)	Mozilla Foundation; Mozilla Corporation
Initial release	December 7, 2015
Stable release	106.1.0 / October 11, 2022
Repository	Android: github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android; iOS: github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios;
Engine	Android: before 6.x: WebView (i.e. Blink); 7.0 and later: GeckoView i.e. Gecko; ; iOS: WebKit;
Type	Mobile browser, Ad-Blocker
License	MPL 2.0
Website	www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/mobile/focus/

Firefox Focus is a free and open-source privacy-focused mobile browser based on Firefox from Mozilla, available for Android and iOS smartphones and tablets. Firefox Focus was initially a tracker-blocking application for mobile iOS devices, released in December 2015. It was developed into a minimalistic web browser shortly afterwards. However, it can still work solely as a tracking-blocker in the background of the Safari browser on Apple devices.

In June 2017, the first release for Android went public and was downloaded over one million times in the first month. As of January 2017, it is available in 27 languages. Since July 2018, Firefox Focus is preinstalled on the BlackBerry Key2 as part of the application Locker.

To bypass content-blocker restrictions from Apple, Firefox Focus uses the UIWebView API on iOS devices. On Android, it used the Blink engine in version 6.x and earlier, and it has used GeckoView since version 7.0.

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