Google Chrome has never been so dominant—the web browser is used by 69 percent of all desktop users and 64 percent of mobile users. Every time you visit a website or conduct a search, again probably using Google, the information you send is fed back to the company’s infrastructure. And that’s on top of advertising trackers from Google and Facebook following you around the web.
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But things don’t have to be this way. Despite only having a tiny fraction of the mobile browser market, Mozilla has totally rewritten its Firefox app for Android to rely on its own infrastructure rather than Google’s, which is used in the majority of browsers. The rework of the Android app, dubbed Firefox Daylight, follows the company testing out the features in a Preview version last year. For people in Europe the new Firefox app was launched Tuesday, while those in the US can get it from August 27.
One of the big differentiators between Firefox on Android and its rivals is that it runs Geckoview, Mozilla’s browser rendering engine. “We are the only independent web engine browser available on Android,” says Dave Camp, the vice president of Firefox.
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