Journalist Peter Welchering and Manfred Kloiber, and Comidio director Herrman Sauer decided to investigate the telemetry tracking of Firefox Focus (known as Firefox Klar in Germany).Īccording to the report, telemetry is not limited to what is listed above. Additionally, the data will reveal features of the application that have been used.Īdjust GMBH is a big data specialist known for tracking and analytics services. The summaries include information on 'whether the app has been in active use recently and when'.

Firefox Focus furthermore sends anonymous summaries 'occasionally' that reveal ' how often the application has been used'.

Data includes an advertising ID, IP address, timestamp, country, language and locale, operating system, and app version.

For new installs, an 'anonymous 'attribution' request is sent to adjust servers containing information on how the app was downloaded.

Data is sent to the adjust backend, not to Mozilla.

Mozilla uses a third-party software development kit by German company adjust GMBH that it built into Firefox Focus that is connected to a data collecting Internet service backend run by adjust GMBH.

PS: if you really want a light browser, try via browser, 500 kB (I'm serious).Mozilla's Support website reveals information on the anonymous usage data collecting of Firefox and Firefox Focus on mobile devices.

Don't use it as a primary browser.Īnd yeah the most important thing on chrome the chrome://dino. I haven't used Firefox so I can't say what's the difference but definitely Focus is shit. So chrome crashes when I open a heavy website. I have a cheapass tablet with 1 GB RAM and a 1 GHz spreadtrum processor. Also I miss the gestures in chrome (like swiping from top on URL bar to bottom to go to tab switcher and swiping right/left on URL bar to switch tabs etc.) Also there's no 'chrome experiments' kind of feature. And a lot of websites don't load completely (the progress bar shows that loading is complete but there's nothing but a blank page).

The website loading speed is slower as compared to chrome. I'm using Firefox Focus since like 4-5 months and I have to say it's a very light browser as compared to chrome.īut many websites just refuse to load.

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