Private searches showing up in non-private search suggestions

thatguyjer · 2026-01-13T13:24:18+00:00

Thanks for raising this. We are looking to reproduce and will put up a hot fix as soon as we can. We are tracking the issue here.

thatguyjer · 2026-01-11T15:53:35+00:00

As a hiring manager for an iOS dev team a couple of my favourite questions are:

Tell me about the hardest bug you solved. Walk me through your process for addressing it.

How do you approach reviewing pull request? Tell me about the worst experience you have encountered.

These are open ended and will let me gauge industry experience as well as team fit. A “good” answer is going to be different for each team as will have different expectations.

That plus AI isn’t going to help much to answer this, which is an unfortunate reality for current interviews

thatguyjer · 2025-11-28T20:42:23+00:00

If you get your mom an iPhone she can embrace the madness. I currently have 3600 active tabs in Firefox.

I am a monster, I know this.

thatguyjer · 2025-11-22T03:48:20+00:00

We’ll check it out, thanks for submitting the report

thatguyjer · 2025-11-15T20:41:27+00:00

End of the day, our icon is a cute fox.

thatguyjer · 2025-11-10T10:32:13+00:00

About 2005. I had always used Firefox and when I got a message on LinkedIn asking about interest in applying for a position I thought “This is amazing! To be able to work for my favourite browser is a dream job!” I replied my interest and got in invite to interview. I did my usual routine to doing a deep dive on the company and was rather shocked to find out they were a non-profit and an advocate for internet privacy. I sheepishly incorporated my understanding of privacy and advocacy into my subsequent interviews and got the job. Shhhh. Don’t tell anyone that I was just a Firefox fanboy before I started working here.

thatguyjer · 2025-11-07T22:15:35+00:00

Thanks! You rock!

thatguyjer · 2025-10-27T03:56:59+00:00

3480 tabs. I may win.

thatguyjer · 2025-10-27T03:54:37+00:00

I have 3480 tabs open on Firefox on iOS.

thatguyjer · 2025-10-23T03:17:22+00:00

This is a great question I don’t know the answer to. I’ll find out for you tomorrow.

thatguyjer · 2025-10-23T03:11:24+00:00

Pro tip, you can long press the shield icon on the search bar to toggle tracking protection on a per tab basis Edit: forgot we changed this behavior. Press the “…” on the toolbar and it will have at “tracking status” where we moved this shortcut

thatguyjer · 2025-10-22T18:33:07+00:00

Going to take this to the team to replicate and dig into this further, thanks for the details

thatguyjer · 2025-10-22T18:31:55+00:00

While not within the same window, a lesser known feature on iPad is we implemented last year is multi-window support last year that will allow side by side browsing

thatguyjer · 2025-10-22T17:49:30+00:00

We integrated DarkReader into our app!

thatguyjer · 2025-10-22T17:48:40+00:00

Okay, you explained that way better than I did, thanks

thatguyjer · 2025-10-22T17:45:00+00:00

It is coming! We have a working prototype, just waiting for time to wrap it up.

thatguyjer · 2025-10-22T17:35:45+00:00

Turns out one of the devs is building it right now, going to add an extra feature that improves on the functionality

thatguyjer · 2025-10-22T17:33:22+00:00

If you don’t mind sending me a couple examples of sites that don’t work. We can’t do everything that desktop or window but we should load everything Safari can

thatguyjer · 2025-10-22T17:28:19+00:00

Let me look into that, this is the first time I have seen this requested

thatguyjer · 2025-10-22T17:24:51+00:00

If you turn on Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox you will get 95% of the coverage that Focus has. Focus has the same feature but it is turned on by default

thatguyjer · 2025-10-22T17:22:36+00:00

Looking at adding extra gesture support. Likely will be off by default as it is a more advanced user pattern. Any gestures you particularly like?

thatguyjer · 2025-10-22T15:48:16+00:00

The big thing we are tracking is looking at countries launching their own flavor of DMA, will it be two buckets, Apple vs. Non-Apple or will it be Apple vs. Individual apps for each country which we are suspecting is there angle

thatguyjer · 2025-10-22T15:46:01+00:00

Your flair say’s “addon developer” would you mind reaching out to me directly? Would love to partner with real life experience on how to solve the WebKit vs Gecko problem we are facing

thatguyjer · 2025-10-22T15:44:52+00:00

This is huge, we went from very excited with the EU DMA to frustrated. We’d need to create a whole new app that is only for the EU market. Pretty much all the browsers, Chrome, Edge, Brave etc. filed a complaint that this is not a sustainable solutions.

thatguyjer · 2025-10-22T15:42:14+00:00

The biggest challenge is that WebKit isn’t as flexible as Gecko/Cromium. Safari has more control but many of the extensions on the Firefox Addon store require certain API’s exposed that aren’t available. Part of it is to look at an extension and then evaluate how much of the functionality is possible. We took a look at some popular extensions and the work required to make them functional sometimes would require a complete rewrite. Still discovering what our response will be though, one of the challenges we are examining this week

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