Every time you close the app (swipe up on the app switcher) or use the trash button it cleans every bit of cached or stored data including cookies, so every time you open it you have a fresh browsing session and it’s harder to be followed around the web.
Obviously inconvenient for banking or the like, so I also have Firefox (regular) installed which stores my login sessions.
Funny, I actually started out with them disabled but I re-enabled them in the past year since I’m terrible at mistyping.
I wish there were a way for only the app to know which sites you’ve visited previously so it could do a better job of helping my typos without exposing that data to websites you visit.
Edit: oh I also wish you could have the address bar on the bottom :/
even so, I would prefer my typo go to DuckDuckGo and then I choose among those options than be auto-corrected and directed to an irrelevant website Firefox chose (which is what happens to me). That said, I’m not usually going to a top 250 website, so - your use case might be different.
I forgot to mention a fringe benefit of Firefox Focus: I feel like it forces me to do a better job of not just opening a webpage and telling myself I’ll read it later (I never do). Since the session is ephemeral and the webpage will be gone if I don’t read it right away, I actually get down to reading the articles more often.
This may also be a side effect of Lemmy, though, since there’s less content here than on reddit.
I like Firefox Focus.
Every time you close the app (swipe up on the app switcher) or use the trash button it cleans every bit of cached or stored data including cookies, so every time you open it you have a fresh browsing session and it’s harder to be followed around the web.
Obviously inconvenient for banking or the like, so I also have Firefox (regular) installed which stores my login sessions.
I use Firefox Focus as well, but I had to disable the “top 250 websites” recommendations when typing in the URL bar, it’s like adverts to my mind.
Funny, I actually started out with them disabled but I re-enabled them in the past year since I’m terrible at mistyping.
I wish there were a way for only the app to know which sites you’ve visited previously so it could do a better job of helping my typos without exposing that data to websites you visit.
Edit: oh I also wish you could have the address bar on the bottom :/
You can in fact set any URL you want to autofill. The setting is under search > automatically fill in URLs > manage websites.
even so, I would prefer my typo go to DuckDuckGo and then I choose among those options than be auto-corrected and directed to an irrelevant website Firefox chose (which is what happens to me). That said, I’m not usually going to a top 250 website, so - your use case might be different.
I forgot to mention a fringe benefit of Firefox Focus: I feel like it forces me to do a better job of not just opening a webpage and telling myself I’ll read it later (I never do). Since the session is ephemeral and the webpage will be gone if I don’t read it right away, I actually get down to reading the articles more often.
This may also be a side effect of Lemmy, though, since there’s less content here than on reddit.