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Comment by swyx | Hacker News Reader

just want to give a shoutout to Firefox Focus and whoever is at Mozilla that made it happen. absolutely fantastic no tracking one tab experience that has made a dent in my browser tab management and privacy defaults like nothing else has. thank you!

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It's worth noting that Firefox Focus is just another chromium-based browser. If things keep moving in the direction they currently are, this may be the sad fate of Firefox proper :(

Happily, this is no longer true! https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/09/focus-with-geckoview/

The latest Firefox Klar on F-droid is still using Blink, according to https://whatsmyua.info/.

That being said, the F-droid version is probably out of date.

That's an issue with the f-droid build config. Maybe worth filing a bug with them and asking to change it?

Yeah it's a shame they have significantly slowed down updates to it. To me it sort of felt half done since you could sort of have tabs if you opened links. But it's a solid browser hope to see it continue.

Recently I've been using Firefox preview for Android and really enjoying it. Looking forward to it replacing Firefox for Android

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios

I tried, but I can't do it. I need tabs.

Firefox Focus has had tabs for a while

i dont get why people want that. for me the restriction of unitab frees me from tab management and forces me to get rid of things i no longer need since im a tab hoarder.

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