Firefox Preview
Test the speed, privacy, and new features of the new Firefox
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Colin Lee

Firefox Preview - Test the speed, privacy, and new features of the new Firefox

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Firefox Preview combines the speed, privacy, control, and easy-to-use features you have come to expect from Firefox. Thanks to the GeckoView engine, Preview is 2x times faster than earlier Firefox versions with Always-on Tracking Protection plus Collections.

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Colin Lee
Maker
I've been working on this product as an engineer for the past six months. Ask me anything!
Peter Toth
@colinmlee Thank you and your team for your work. I am big fan of Firefox. My question would be how your approach differs from other browsers like Opera or Brave in terms of user privacy?
Avi
@colinmlee Does it sync with firefox desktop via firefox account? Also, what's the difference between this and firefox focus?
Colin Lee
Maker
@aviaryan123 Currently, Bookmarks and History syncs with desktop. Other syncing is coming soon. Firefox Focus was a very basic browser with no Bookmarks, syncing, or tabs that stay loaded on switching. We hope to bring more privacy-oriented features to Firefox Preview for our Focus users.
Colin Lee
Maker
@petertothsk I cannot speak for the whole team, but our approach flows from Mozilla's mission. Privacy is at the core of everything we do. Whenever there are trade-offs, we aim to offer users control. I respect the tech at those organizations, but their financial incentives are not always aligned with privacy. Brave openly collects money for eyeballs. I miss the innovative Opera under old ownership. That doesn't mean they aren't doing interesting things.
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@colinmlee Not really a big fan, but this Firefox is really promising. Do you think there is any possible for it to move on PC platform? Also, can I have an option to minimize the border-radius of its card/tab/block (don't really know what it call)
Agus Putra Dana
It's definitely faster. I like that the search bar is moved to the bottom of the screen. Every web page now feels like a native app. I move between tabs more often than sharing links or bookmarking a page. If the drag behaviour is used for switching tab, it'd be perfect. Will keep using it.
Anna Filou
@aguspdana +1 for drag to switch tab!
Jordi Mon Companys
Hey @colinmlee can one subscribe to get pinged when its available in iOS?
Colin Lee
Maker
@mordodemaru iOS imposes some limits on what we can do, but Firefox for iOS could pick up some features and UX. Maybe join their betas?
Jordi Mon Companys
@colinmlee Is it up to the Firefox or iOS team to choose how much from FF Preview it picks? Isn't there a common roadmap? Or is FF Preview in fact where FF for iOS (or mobile for that matter) is actually going i.e. the same project?
Jordi Mon Companys
@colinmlee OK this explains things better https://blog.mozilla.org/futurer... It was linked atop all along, Jesus!
arga laksmana
What an amazing
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I like this product because: 1. Super fast 2. UX is polished so well, extremely easy to use 3. UI is clean, 4. Collection is a great function for multitaskers, who love opens a thousand tabs. Most of us, I guess. But it still need a small improvement: 1. The round border (border-radius) is too big. It simply looks ugly, creating many void in the screen that displease users eye rather then makes them feel comfortable.
Anna Filou
It's awesome! I'm waiting for: - ability to send tabs/collections to my other devices - dark mode that applies to the content of the pages as well as the app UI I think it would be much better if we could browse within a collection instead of having to open a saved tab first. Because let's say I have a connection of 30 tabs that consists of articles I want to read to read. I click "open all" and what that does is it opens all 30 links. Let's say I read 10 of the articles and close the respective tabs. So 20 more articles left to read. The problem is that all 30 tabs would still be in my "collection"... Would much better if each connection worked like a browser window.
Colin Lee
Maker
@anna_0x Hi Anna. Send tabs almost made the release, but was held back briefly because of a bug. It should arrive soon. Sending collections depends upon desktop supporting collections. Our dark mode already applies to sites that detect dark mode and handle it, like Twitter. As for forcing sites to dark mode that don't support it, we'll need more time to get that feature right. We're still tweaking the collections feature to try to get it right. Your input is helpful. Could you explain the last comment a bit more? Thank you!
Chema
Thanks for this! amazing job, love it, using it since the launch!
Jessica williams
It's super fast! Thanks
Yetunde Oluyemi
Wonderful product. Its simply amazing
Estah Shively Hashy
Amazing and easy to use.
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