Privacy Features in Firefox for Android

Firefox for Android

Why does privacy matter?

Supporting privacy on the web

• Control
• Transparency
• Innovation

Current features

Don't save my data

• Private browsing
• Clear data on quit

Share my device without sharing all my data

• Guest browsing

Tell sites not to track me

• Do Not Track

Search without being tracked

• DuckDuckGo
• Default search engine

New features under development

Restricted profiles

• Android feature new in Android 4.3
• Ability to add locked-down user accounts
• System integration for guest browsing and parental controls

Tracking protection

• Enabled in Nightly
• Blocks certain network requests
• Sometimes breaks the web :)
• More user research under way

More features with add-ons

Why add-ons?

• Easy experimentation
• Features for power users
• Opting-in to breaking the web :)

Some things add-ons can do

• Modify network traffic
• Control local data storage
• Expose background activity

Popular mobile add-ons

• Bluehell firewall
• Self-destructing cookies
• Smart referrer

Building your own mobile add-on

• Same technology as desktop Firefox add-ons
• As simple as a JS file and a manifest
• Some special APIs to interact with native UI

Developer tools

• Connect with WebIDE (new in Fx36)
• Debug your add-on JS
• Inspect the browser JS

Add-on resources

• Documentation on MDN
• Code samples on github
• Copy/paste and you're on your way!

Want to contribute to Firefox for Android?

• Join us in #mobile on irc.mozilla.org
• Join the mobile-firefox-dev mailing list
• Check out our Get Involved page
• [NEW] You can also contribute to Firefox for iOS!

Thanks!

http://leibovic.github.io/privacy-fxandroid/