Firefox Fast & Private Browser

Mozilla

About this app

Get the browser that prioritizes people over profits

It’s a new era in tech. Don’t settle for a browser made by unethical, profit-driven, data-hoarding companies. By choosing Firefox, you support the non-profit Mozilla Foundation whose mission is to build a better internet — one that puts individual and public benefit over commercial profit.

What Firefox offers:

✔ PRIVACY-FOCUSED BROWSING
• Automatic tracker blocking — By default, Firefox blocks trackers and scripts such as social media trackers, cross-site cookie trackers, crypto-miners and fingerprinters.
• Enhanced tracking protection — Choose the “strict” setting and get even more privacy protections.
• Private browsing mode — When you close private mode, your browsing history is automatically erased from your device.

✔ EASY-TO-USE TABS
• Find what you want quickly — create as many tabs as you like without losing track.
• See your open tabs as thumbnails or a list view.
• See tabs from your phone on your desktop and vice versa — or choose to keep them separate.

✔ PASSWORD MANAGEMENT
• Log into sites easily — Firefox remembers your passwords across devices.
• Firefox suggests passwords for new log-ins and stores them securely.

✔ LIGHTNING-FAST PAGE LOADS
• Enhanced Tracking Protection automatically blocks online trackers from following you around the web and slowing down your pages.

✔ TAILORED SEARCH OPTIONS
• Get suggestions and previously searched results in the search bar so you can quickly access the sites you visit most.
• Move the search bar location from the top to the bottom of the screen, making it easier to use with one hand.
• Use the Firefox search widget to search the web directly from your device’s home screen.
• See the recent searches you’ve done on other devices for seamless searching across mobile, desktop and more.

✔ CUSTOMIZE YOUR FIREFOX EXPERIENCE
• Get helpful add-on extensions, including ways to block ads, block certain webpages, turbo-charge privacy settings and more.

✔ FIREFOX HOME SCREEN
• Access your recent bookmarks, top sites and see popular articles from across the internet, recommended by Pocket, which is part of Mozilla.

✔ SAVE BATTERY WITH DARK MODE
Switch to dark mode any time, reducing eye strain and prolonging your battery power.

✔ WATCH VIDEOS WHILE YOU MULTITASK
• Pop videos out of their webpages or players and pin them to the top of your phone’s screen to watch while you surf the web and do other things.

✔ SHARE ANYTHING IN A FEW TAPS
• 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. Privacy policy: http://www.mozilla.org/legal/privacy/firefox.html

Ratings and reviews

Update 11/28/23 Hands down, it's a great browser. All previous complaints are resolved. Very customizable browser, brilliant upgrades Firefox, you outdid yourselves. Thank you. -------------------------------- The last change to Firefox was a mistake. To me it's confusing in terms of how to use it vs the way it used to be. Let alone the way other browsers work (search box up top, not bottom). Additionally, the way the tabs work now, vs previously. I'll go back to Chrome as my default, too bad..

Overall I like the app. The ability to have add-ons like uBlock and forced dark mode is such an upgrade over using chrome; however, it's rather sticky in comparison. Travel length for gestures, like swipping to close a tab, seem too long and sometimes pages have wierd issues with scrolling. I have had it where pages are slow to scroll after loading or scrolling doesn't go as far as you'd expect, though this could be due to uBlock. Overall though, I'd say it's worth using despite the issues.

I will be surfing the web in incognito mode and after 30 minutes at most, the browser just blinks and closes and and all the incognito tabs are lost or anything on my regular browser searches. It makes no difference. Point is, the app keeps closing or crashing or whatever they call it, and doesn't work. I did the clear cache stuff and reduced tabs, and clean reinstall. Still an issue.

What's new

-In anticipation of opening up the Firefox for Android extension ecosystem later this year, dozens of new mobile extensions will surface during the 120 release cycle as we continue guardrail testing.
- Fixed tabs tray bug where selecting tabs could accidentally close them