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 er0l on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:55AM (#12979088)

defaults to yahoo search without the ability to change does not feel private to me

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Re:Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private brow... by tedmiston on Thursday November 17, 2016 @02:03PM (#12980342)

I wonder why not DuckDuckGo. Perhaps Mozilla has a sponsorship from Yahoo.

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Re:Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private brow... by wmccullough on Thursday November 17, 2016 @02:49PM (#12980800)

No, they admitted they ran out of time and just went with defaults of a few things. They have a ticket open to solve this issue already.

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Re:Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private brow... by NeutronBoy on Thursday November 17, 2016 @06:34PM (#12982850)

For reference the bug is here

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1318359

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Re:Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private brow... by er0l on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:49PM (#12981396)

Oh awesome news, it's wicked fast and will definitely be my default mobile browser once they solve the yahoo problem.

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Re:Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private brow... by er0l on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:50PM (#12981407)

https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/11/yahoo-and-mozilla-for...

"strategic partnership"

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Re:Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private brow... by yborg on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:55PM (#12984185)

Ran an identical search in the "new" Focus and in Safari with 1Blocker and set to use DuckDuckGo. Focus with Yahoo search page leads off with 2 sponsored search results, aka ads, which take up most of the screen on my 5s. Safari with DDG has none.

Focus deleted from device.

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