Nguyen noted that the private browsing mode in Firefox for Android already includes include tracking protection. The Firefox Focus browser is now an IOS-only product. Nguyen commented that due to Apple’s restrictions, all browsers on iOS, including Firefox Focus, are based on WebKit. Since Mozilla first began, it has used its own Gecko engine to power browsers. While the Firefox Focus browser benefits from the Tracking Protection innovations that Mozilla has built on the desktop, the core rendering engine is different. The privacy protection that the Firefox Focus browser provides includes blocking various forms of tracking technologies including cookies, that can be used by websites for advertising and analytics. “The Firefox Focus Browser is a separate browser with content blocking built-in and turned on by default.” “Focus by Firefox was our first content blocker that blocks certain types of content in the Safari browser,” Nick Nguyen, VP of Firefox Product at Mozilla told eWEEK. With Focus by Firefox, Mozilla brought the Tracking Protection privacy feature that first debuted in Firefox 42, to IOS users.

In December 2015, Mozilla released its Focus by Firefox content blocker for Apple’s IOS. The new browser follows multiple Mozilla efforts in recent years to improve security for both mobile and desktop users and debuts just two days after Firefox 50 for desktop was released. There’s a new web browser in the Apple AppStore today as Mozilla’s Firefox Focus makes its debut as a privacy-focused approach to mobile web browsing.

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