{"id":1935,"date":"2017-12-14T09:44:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T09:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2017-12-14T10:48:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T10:48:23","slug":"firefox-focus-adds-quick-access-without-sacrificing-users-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/2017\/12\/14\/firefox-focus-adds-quick-access-without-sacrificing-users-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Focus Adds Quick Access Without Sacrificing Users\u2019 Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s been a little over a year since we <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/17\/introducing-firefox-focus-a-free-fast-and-easy-to-use-private-browser-for-ios\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">launched Firefox Focus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We\u2019ve had tremendous success since then, we launched in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/firefox-focus-now-available-in-27-languages\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">27+ languages<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/20\/firefox-focus-new-to-android-blocks-annoying-ads-and-protects-your-privacy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">launched on Android<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/firefox-focus-now-available-in-27-languages\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hit over 1 million downloads on Android within the first month<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of launch. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, we\u2019re introducing a new feature: quicker access to your most visited sites, as well as the ability to add any search engine to your Focus app. They were the most requested items from our users and are aligned with our goals on what makes Focus so great. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We know our users want choice and miss the convenience of having their favourite websites and search engines at their fingertips, but they don\u2019t want to sacrifice their privacy. Since the moment we\u2019ve built Focus, our goal has been to get our users quickly to the information and sites all while keeping their data safe from unwanted targeting. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We all have our popular go-to sites that we visit regularly &#8212; whether it\u2019s checking the latest news on your favourite news site or checking the scores of your beloved sports team. Now, you can add the sites you visit frequently to your personal autocomplete list within the app. This means that only you can see the sites\u2019 URL in this list. So, when you\u2019re ready to check your favourite sports team\u2019s scores, you simply type in a couple letters and autocomplete will finish the job. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/files\/2017\/12\/En-Andorid.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1936\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/files\/2017\/12\/En-Andorid-252x448.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/files\/2017\/12\/En-Andorid-252x448.png 252w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/files\/2017\/12\/En-Andorid-768x1365.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/files\/2017\/12\/En-Andorid-600x1067.png 600w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/files\/2017\/12\/En-Andorid.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/files\/2017\/12\/En-IOS.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1937 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/files\/2017\/12\/En-IOS-252x443.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/files\/2017\/12\/En-IOS-252x443.png 252w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/files\/2017\/12\/En-IOS.png 509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check it out here:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F9bouLLkRNY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s also something new for users where they can add search engines from any site that has a search field. If you want to search from somewhere outside our list of suggested search engines, go ahead and add it! For example, if you want to see a movie this weekend but don\u2019t want to waste hours on a bad movie, you can check rottentomatoes.com. We know that choice is important to our power users so this new function allows them to set up their preferred way for searching the web. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the reasons users love Focus is because of the faster load times due to our auto-blocking of ads and trackers. It quickly gets you to the places where you want to go and sets us apart from other browsers. We built Focus as the quickest and easiest privacy browser built with you in mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The latest version of Firefox Focus can be downloaded on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/b8s7qo?campaign=moz_blog&amp;adgroup=blog&amp;creative=focus_android\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Google Play<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and in the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/id1055677337?mt=8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> App Store<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a little over a year since we launched Firefox Focus. We\u2019ve had tremendous success since then, we launched in 27+ languages, launched on Android, and hit over 1 &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/2017\/12\/14\/firefox-focus-adds-quick-access-without-sacrificing-users-privacy\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8807,131005,5,66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}