I’ve been told about Mull and fennec, but what about:

(From what I understand)

  • Firefox Focus: blocks trackers and erases browsing history
  • Firefox Nightly: new updates every night
  • Firefox Klar: german version of focus
  • Iceraven Browser: 3rd party fork with more add ons
  • antidote101@lemmy.world
    511·
    11 months ago

    Given Germany has some of the strictest privacy laws, I’m betting Klar is the honest version of focus. The fact that both exist separately makes me question Firefox’s commitment to privacy.

    Looks sus.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      101·
      11 months ago

      One of their partners in that region already established a brand under the same name.

      From https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/difference-between-firefox-focus-and-firefox-klar

      Klar by Firefox is the German-language version and only available in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It includes the same features as the English-language app Focus by Firefox.

      Why did we change the name/replace the app?

      The publishing and media company Burda, which the news magazine FOCUS belongs to in Germany, is one of our partners. We therefore decided to replace our app “Focus by Firefox” in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland by “Klar by Firefox”.

    • Aurix@lemmy.world
      7·
      11 months ago

      If you think it is suspicious you should be able to spot it in the open source repository. Otherwise see the other, and probably only, reason for the different name.

    • ahornsirup
      2·
      11 months ago

      Worth noting that “Focus” is the name of a well known weekly print magazine/news website here. They may just want to avoid a false association.

    • axo@feddit.de
      2·
      11 months ago

      Just the name is different, since a german news magazine already claims the name “fokus”. Mozilla was forced to rename its browser because of that