Firefox’s new home page widgets are helping me focus

I launched Firefox this greeting to find immoderate caller blocks connected my location page. The widgets that are presently rolling retired adhd sports scores, clip zones, a attraction timer, and a checklist, which are already immoderate of my favourite caller Firefox features successful years. I usually person Focus Friend unfastened connected my telephone erstwhile I request a attraction timer, and I usage Google Tasks for my checklists. Now I tin cheque successful pinch akin devices each clip I unfastened a caller Firefox tab instead.

My phone’s homescreen is afloat of useful widgets, truthful it’s a bully summation to person the timer and checklist popular up connected my browser — they adhd immoderate other functionality and blend successful devices I was already utilizing elsewhere. The timer is minimal, but having it connected the location page is simply a bully equilibrium for maine betwixt having it retired of show truthful it’s not distracting, but not truthful buried that I hide astir it.

You tin adhd aliases region immoderate of the widgets from the location page customization tab, and there’s a toggle to grow them. The timer is preset to 25/5 Pomodoro-style intervals, pinch a 25-minute attraction mode and a 5-minute break mode, but you tin set both. There’s besides an optional notification for erstwhile the timer ends.

The caller widgets were mentioned successful merchandise notes arsenic an betterment arriving betwixt Firefox 151 and the precocious released 152, and conscionable this week, Mozilla launched a roadmap of different changes connected the way, for illustration the Project Nova redesign.