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focus-android

⚠️ Firefox Focus (Android) moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android

17Distinct people
21Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.1KGitHub stars
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What it is

⚠️ Firefox Focus (Android) moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:45:45 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month21 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-08-18 20:44:38 UTC to 2019-08-29 18:30:06 UTC.

0369122017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 0 submissions, 12 commentsAug 20172017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 20182018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 2019

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Aug 20172017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC12012
Sep 20172017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Oct 20172017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20172017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20172017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20182018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20182018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20182018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20182018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 20182018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20182018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20182018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20182018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Oct 20182018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20182018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 20182018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 20192019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20192019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20192019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20192019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20192019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jul 20192019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20192019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 13, 2026.

Read the project’s introduction
Firefox Focus for Android Browse like no one’s watching. The new Firefox Focus automatically blocks a wide range of online trackers — from the moment you launch it to the second you leave it. Easily erase your history, passwords and cookies, so you won’t get followed by things like unwanted ads. Firefox Focus provides automatic ad blocking and tracking protection on an easy-to-use private browser. Google Play: Firefox Focus (Global) Google Play: Firefox Klar (Germany, Austria & Switzerland) Download APKs Getting Involved We encourage you to participate in this open source project. We love Pull Requests, Bug Reports, ideas, (security) code reviews or any other kind of positive contribution. Before you attempt to make a contribution please read the Community Participation Guidelines. Guide to Contributing (New contributors start here!) View current Issues, view current Pull Requests, or file a security issue. Opt-in to our Mailing List firefox-focus-public@ to keep up to date. View the Wiki. Beginners! - Watch out for Issues with the "Good First Issue" label. These are easy bugs that have been left for first timers to have a go, get involved and make a positive contribution to the project! Build Instructions Clone or Download the repository: git clone https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android Import the project into Android Studio or build on the command line: ./gradlew clean app:assembleFocusDebug Make sure to select the correct build variant in Android Studio: focusArmDebug for ARM focusX86Debug for X86 focusAarch64Debug for ARM64 local.properties helpers You can speed up or enhance local development by setting a few helper flags available in local.properties which will be made easily available as gradle properties. Automatically sign release builds To sign your release builds with your debug key automatically, add the following to <proj-root>/local.properties: autosignReleaseWithDebugKey With this line, release build variants will automatically be signed with your debug key (like debug builds), allowing them to be built and installed directly through Android Studio or the command line. This is helpful when you're building release variants frequently, for example to test feature flags and or do performance analyses. Building debuggable release variants Nightly, Beta and Release variants are getting published to Google Play and therefore are not debuggable. To locally create debuggable builds of those variants, add the following to <proj-root>/local.properties: debuggable Auto-publication workflow for android-components and application-services If you're making changes to these projects and want to test them in Focus, auto-publication workflow is the fastest, most reliable way to do that. In local.properties, specify a relative path to your local android-components and/or application-services projects. E.g.: autoPublish.android-components.dir=../firefox-android/android-components autoPublish.application-services.dir=../application-services Note that the Android Components project was already migrated to the new firefox-android repository. Therefore, this auto publication workflow won't be neccessary for Android Components once Focus is integrated in the new repository as well. Once these flags are set, your Focus builds will include any local modifications present in these projects. See a demo of auto-publication workflow in action. Pre-push hooks To reduce review turn-around time, we'd like all pushes to run tests locally. We'd recommend you use our provided pre-push hook in quality/pre-push-recommended.sh. Using this hook will guarantee your hook gets updated as the repository changes. This hook tries to run as much as possible without taking too much time. To add it, run this command from the project root: ln -s ../../quality/pre-push-recommended.sh .git/hooks/pre-push To push without running the pre-push hook (e.g. doc updates): git push <remote> --no-verify Test Channel on Google PlayStore To get Focus Nightly on your device, follow these steps: Visit https://groups.google.com/g/firefox-focus-pre-release and join the Google Group After you have joined the group opt-in to receive Nightly builds, again with the same Google account: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.mozilla.focus.nightly Download Firefox Focus (Nightly) from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.focus.nightly Make sure you use the same Google Account for both steps. License This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/
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What Hacker News says

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There are no real improvements coming to Firefox Nightly on Android. All the real action is happening in Firefox Focus with GeckoView: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/wiki/Release... and in Fenix: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix Fennec (Firefox for Android) is basically in maintenance mode. FWIW: Firefox Focus Nightly is a much better implementation of Gecko on Android than Fennec ever was, with the caveat that Sync, sessions, or extensions are not available.
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