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A comment on Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS.

Re:Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private brow... by schlagetown on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:23AM (#12978192)
"Cannot download. This app is not compatible with your device."

Um…what? I'm on an iPhone 5! Not that ancient!

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Re:Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private brow... by HappyTypist on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:28AM (#12978237)
Content blockers require a 64 bit CPU. This is an Apple requirement
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Re:Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private brow... by dictum on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:31AM (#12978267)
I expected that, but that's an unfortunate side effect of coupling the new browser app with the previous content blocker app.

(Just found out that it's not compatible with my iPad 4)

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Re:Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private brow... by st3fan on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:55AM (#12978515)
Yes this is unfortunate. I will check if we can somehow release the app for all devices. But I am afraid that will result in a difficult to message situation.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1318363

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Re:Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private brow... by tedmiston on Thursday November 17, 2016 @02:00PM (#12980312)
Sorry to burst your bubble, but this is Apple's ecosystem. 2 years is the very real artificial lifespan of "current" whether we like it or not.

Fun fact: I still have an iPad Mini 1 running some very ancient version of iOS that I use once in a while for single-page browsing. It gets the job done for very short sessions. I'm amazed the battery is still good.

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