Firefox Fast & Private Browser

Mozilla

About this app

Get the people-first browser that’s backed by a non-profit.

It’s a new era in tech. Don’t settle for a browser produced by giant, profit driven, data hoarding tech companies. Firefox is the obvious choice for independent, ethical tech that respects your privacy and gives you more ways than ever before to tailor your internet experience exactly the way you want it.

Firefox is backed by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, whose mission is to ensure the internet remains a global public resource, open and accessible to everyone. When you make Firefox your go-to, everyday browser, you’re also joining a unique (serious nerd cred) community that’s actively helping to diversify the way people experience the internet.

Firefox is extremely private for a reason — and the reason is you.

We want you to have an amazing experience every time you use Firefox. We know feeling safe and secure are foundational for enjoying your time online. Since version 1 in 2004, we’ve taken privacy seriously, because we’ve always been in the business of valuing people first, over everything. When you care more about people than you do about profits, privacy naturally becomes a top priority.

DIFFERENT DEVICES. SAME TRAIN OF THOUGHT.
Now you can search for things on your laptop then pick up the exact same search on your phone and vice versa. Your Firefox homepage displays your most recent searches you’ve done on your other devices so you can easily get back to what you were doing or thinking about.

LIMITED EDITION WALLPAPERS
Introducing limited-edition wallpapers from independent creators. Stick with one you love or switch it up anytime to make your Firefox match your mood.

STREAMLINED HOME SCREEN
Pick up right where you left off. See all your open tabs intuitively grouped and displayed along with your recent bookmarks, top sites and popular articles recommended by Pocket.

GET FIREFOX ON ALL YOUR DEVICES
Add Firefox across your devices for secure, seamless browsing. In addition to synced tabs and searches, Firefox also makes password management easy by remembering your passwords across devices.

PRIVACY CONTROL IN ALL THE RIGHT PLACES
Firefox gives you greater privacy protection while you’re on the web. By default, Firefox blocks trackers and scripts such as social media trackers, cross-site cookie trackers, crypto-miners and fingerprinters. Setting Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection to “strict” blocks tracking content in all windows. Also, you can easily choose to search in private browsing mode. And when you close private browsing mode, your browsing history and any cookies are automatically erased from your device.

FIND IT FAST WITH FIREFOX’S SEARCH BAR
Get search suggestions in the search bar and quickly access the sites you visit most. Type in your search question and get suggested and previously searched results across your favourite search engines.

GET ADD-ONS
Full support for the most popular add-ons, including ways to turbo-charge powerful default privacy settings and customise your experience.

ORGANISE YOUR TABS THE WAY YOU LIKE
Create as many tabs as you like without losing track. Firefox displays your open tabs as thumbnails and numbered tabs, making it easy to find what you want quickly.

LEARN MORE ABOUT FIREFOX WEB BROWSER:
- Read about Firefox permissions: http://mzl.la/Permissions
- Stay in the know: https://blog.mozilla.org

ABOUT MOZILLA
Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe open and free is better than closed and controlled. We build products like Firefox to promote choice and transparency and give people more control over their lives online. Learn more at https://www.mozilla.org.

Privacy Policy: http://www.mozilla.org/legal/privacy/firefox.html

Ratings and reviews

I've been trying to find a fault with Firefox since I originally downloaded the app. The fact is that I am not the authority on web browsers either. But through my own experiences with the ones that I have used, Firefox is the only one that has displayed NO side effects and has been able to go toe to toe with all of it's competitors. I am going to cut short of slander, and defamation of character by not naming the others but I have ran MS Windows almost exclusively if you want an idea of one!

It's not the best browser performance-wise, but it's way better than Chrome. Firefox has excellent privacy and security features. It supports extensions on Android. The default Firefox browser homepage is a hot mess compared with every other browser out there. The order in which shortcuts and bookmarks appear is so random. It lacks polish. You can't organize or pin anything. It's jammed full of sponsored content. It's annoying to use and the biggest hurdle in Firefox being a decent browser.

A recent change to the app made it frightenly easy to close tabs with a gesture that is misinterpreted as a swipe. I cannot keep up with the "undo" actions needed to react to this, and have destroyed my workflows. I'm going to have to switch back to Chrome (eew) because at least it won't wreck my work. Happy to come back once Firefox's UI/UX manager puts down their bong for a few hours.

What's new

Fixed battery usage reporting in Firefox for Android: Firefox no longer triggers a bug in Android 14 which was causing Android to report massively inflated battery usage on certain devices when Firefox was not running. You may need to restart your phone for the fix to take effect.