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by Kwpolska 1572 days ago
> Mozilla has taken this idea a step further with Firefox Klar (also known as Firefox Focus similar to Firefox Klar but with less private default settings).

Nope, Klar == Focus in German-speaking markets, the rename was caused by an existing trademark: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/difference-between-fire...

Speaking of which, Focus fits my flow of incidental, one-off browsing quite well — it’s my default browser. If I need a more serious or stateful interaction, I might have the service’s/whatever’s app installed, or use Chrome or full Firefox.

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It’s actually not that simple – Firefox Focus and Firefox Klar are two different apps, with different packages.

The official Firefox Klar builds originally contained slightly less tracking than the official Firefox Focus builds. Nowadays it might be only the trademark that keeps them separate, but originally there were clear differences in code.