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 from 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. 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.

EASY PASSWORD MANAGEMENT
Firefox makes password management simple by generating unique passwords and remembering them across devices.

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 favorite search engines.

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

ORGANIZE 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.

SHARE ANYTHING IN A FEW TAPS
Firefox makes it easy to share links to web pages or specific items on a page with easy, quick access to your most recently used apps.

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.

Ratings and reviews

Dislike new PDF "Feature" give us the ability to turn it off like on desktop browser. I strongly dislike in app PDF viewers. The lack of options once the PDF is open is the problem. Give me the ability to turn this off just like in the desktop app. I have used your browsers since the 1990s. Do not tell me about the workaround. Give me the option to turn it off.

I use this for watching YouTube because Firefox doesn't cripple script blockers. But the way it handles network changes or Bluetooth can be rather brittle. I have to force stop or even clear cache on occasion because it can freeze when I switch to a Bluetooth keyboard, it can hang while loading a video when the network was recently changed (5G/LTE >> WiFi). Other than that, pretty solid.

Overall fair experience, but viewing and saving images via search engines is not mobile friendly, nor particularly convenient. Opening email with links seems to default to the Google app, even though it is, in theory, your default browser. And also, sound quality on some embedded audio players is much lower than on other apps. Overall an adequate app, but I definitely prefer Firefox as my laptop browser, not my mobile browser.

What's new

- You can now view PDF documents directly in Firefox.
- Total Cookie Protection was added to Enhanced Tracking Protection’s Strict Mode. Every website gets its own “cookie jar,” preventing cookies from being used to track you from site to site.
- On Pixel devices running Android 12+, you can now share links to recently viewed web content directly from the Recents screen.
- Open in app and Android intents behavior change. You will need to confirm that the request to Open in app is expected.