Firefox Fast & Private Browser 17+

No more dark mode?

EDIT: Dark mode seems to be back again for me, if it stays Firefox will return to being my browser of choice. I chose this app so I could read websites at night and dark mode was what I relied on to be able to do that. The option from the hamburger menu has been removed and the only other option I can see in settings (Theme) doesn’t work in the same way as the original option did. I won’t be able to use Firefox anymore if this isn’t fixed.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for using Firefox for iOS and your support! You're right, the Dark Mode is available again. If you have any suggestions of how we can improve our app, you can upload your ideas at https://mzl.la/sumo-connect

Shame on Apple and Mozilla

This is not Firefox in any way, shape, or form, bar name and organisation. In fact, it is antithetical to the very idea of Firefox and extensions, and, quite appropriately for Apple, gives the guise of choice and privacy, when this is not at all the case. The curated thought-friendly “extensions” are an abysmal fraction of the available ecosystem made by developers, and provides no access to any tools that prevent third party snooping, blocking, or anything that stops Apple from extracting its value from you. Additionally, the studies and telemetry options that exist in the significantly trimmed down settings menu, have flipped themselves back to transmitting data without ny input. Programming error, I’m sure- just like all those other privacy invasions that benefit the people who made the “error”. As a hollow shell of itself as an app, within a trash walled garden ecosystem, the developers should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this kind of sacrifice to the principles of the browser and open internet, and to the organisation itself, for bending the knee once again, and entrenching this kind of anti-people technology.

It’s good but…

Been using this browser on iOS mobile and desktop and so far good sync, bookmarks, customisation. However there are some issues which annoys me quite a-lot.
1. On your homepage, you can save sites but Firefox automatically also saves your visited sites or searches on to the homepage which is unnecessary and there is no option to disable that. I wish they added an option to disable visited sites and only have saved sites.
2. The desktop browser is good but the iOS version not up to mark. You still get ads when visiting sites which Is annoying and sparks the question of why even use this browser if it doesn’t block those ads.
3. On edge and other browser on phone you can just swipe between private mode and normal mode but on Firefox I have press on the tab icon to switch between private mode and normal mode. Wish they added this simple feature of swipe between modes.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your detailed review on how we can improve Firefox for iOS. We don't have ad-block extensions available in Firefox for iOS due to Apple restrictions, but we have a feature called Enhanced Tracking Protection that helps reduce targeted ads. You can read more about this here: https://mzl.la/3HaVIAf. As for your additional requests for a new swipe gesture, customizing your homepage, and adding an ad blocker function, you can request all these features by posting your idea to our feedback site at https://mzl.la/sumo-connect