Firefox Focus Community Forum

i typed this out in another threads comment, but it was marked "solved" and wasn't updated so im posting my own thread question.

I also frequently have issues loading pages when i have all the enhanced privacy protection settings enabled to prevent tracking on firefox focus. It seems to break websites that use lots of javascript and tracking/fingerprinting. So how can I have these privacy settings turned on but still load pages ???

Cuz right now I just have to turn all the privacy protections off to load some pages, which is annoying and kinda defeats the purpose of Firefox Focus for me, because I use it as my alt quick search browser for things i don't need to save or open more than 10 tabs with, and i also want to be private by default and still be able to load pages.

I don't have a specific example right now but I can definitely say that news sites like CNN, NYT, etc that have lots of tracking/ads/javascript are not usable. and turning off privacy settings just to read some articles is not good. I want more options than just rawdogging javascript/tracking sites without protection to get it to load.

Also sites that require cookies to be enabled completely refuse to load and show an error. So how can I solve these problems without turning off all privacy settings??

or what are the steps to take when a page breaks and can't load bc of no cookies enabled or one of the enhanced privacy settings conflicting with the page loading? is there a gradually change settings order to do that will allow the page to load without sacrificing all of privacy?

Thanks in advance and sorry for hijacking this thread. I will copy my text and submit my own issue. I am also thinking about becoming a contributor and this answer would be very very valuable to help others bc i know this is a big issue and some clarity on it would go a long way in marketing focus as a great lightweight privacy focused browser that doesn't break most pages....when theres no easy/obvious solution then people tend to abandon using it....

-BB

I occasionally use Firefox Focus (Klar) on my Fairphone 6 running E/OS.

Today, I noticed the following notification for the first time: Download-Manager Additional files for the Firefox Klar browser

I’ve never noticed this before. Any idea what’s being downloaded?

FYI: E/OS is using com.android.providers.downloads v15 as download manager

I used to be able to play a video in Focus, exit the app, then play it again from iPhones drag down menu.

This was the #1 reason I used Firefox Focus.

Now it just shorts out and can’t play from the background.

Can someone describe to me how you can open multiple tabs from the Browser starting page? All I see is the top search bar which takes me to Google. But what do I do if I wanna do another search in another tab? Most other browsers simply have a clearly visible button to open another tab but I can‘t find it on Firefox Focus. Online it says there‘s supposed to be a + in the top right corner but it isn‘t there on the picture below and it also doesn‘t appear once I do a search.

My service provider blocked by fire fox.And not able to receive any messages on five good friends App.Not able to receive my documents from five good friends. Can your please unblock this site. Thank you Robert {robbie17}