# Firefox Focus

16 Hacker News commenters recommended Firefox Focus and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Privacy browser people recommend for blocking ads on iOS and wiping tabs when closed. Critics say some sites show adblocker prompts or render text poorly.

## Why people recommend it

- Blocks ads well on iOS (2 comments): "I've been using firefox focus as Safari content blocker to block ads on ios Firefox for years. Works well" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530551)) "This Firefox Focus on iOS does effectively block adds on a recipe site unlike plain Firefox." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557156))
- Clears tabs and session on close (3 comments): "There is a third path, Firefox focus. Accept everything, the end the session." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47233672)) "It is great that it nukes your tabs when you fully close it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325872)) "You're a new visitor every time." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580692))
- Telemetry-free privacy setup (2 comments): "It didn't involve telemetry, sinister industry collaboration, compromise performance, or implicate Mozilla as a bad industry actor in any meaningful way." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935191)) "Disable Daily Ping and Crash Reports in Firefox Focus and you too have a telemetry-free browser on iOS." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46050065))
- Good Mozilla iOS browser (3 comments): "My first move on iOS is to install Firefox Focus" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50079291)) "It's my favorite thing Mozilla has done on iOS." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575464)) "their Focus mobile browser is nice" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515614))

## What people warn about

- Some pages render incorrectly (4 comments): "This full article is not rendering all the text in anything but Firefox Focus on my android phone" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978943)) "Under Firefox Focus I can read it if I manually zoom and scroll. Not ideal." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424325)) "I got a blank box (white box on gray background IIRC) in Firefox Focus" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328309))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Firefox](https://hackerapproved.com/p/firefox.md): 1572 recommend
- [Brave](https://hackerapproved.com/p/brave-browser.md): 397 recommend
- [Safari](https://hackerapproved.com/p/safari.md): 307 recommend
- [Orion Browser by Kagi](https://hackerapproved.com/p/orion-browser.md): 206 recommend
- [LibreWolf](https://hackerapproved.com/p/librewolf.md): 113 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Firefox Focus", https://hackerapproved.com/p/firefox-focus/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).