FoxBox v25.04.18

UserLAnd Technologies

About this app

Developer Description

FoxBox: Desktop Firefox on Android

FoxBox allows you to run desktop Firefox on an Android device.

What is FoxBox?

FoxBox is not Firefox itself and is not a Mozilla project, but instead is a compatibility layer that sets up a Linux desktop Firefox build, launches it, renders it and provides a way to interact with it.

What features does it provide?
*Web page rendering
*Standard desktop Firefox extensions
*Built-in file manager. Can interact with files on sdcard, after you give it permissions.
*Developer tools.
*Sound support.
*Etc

How to Use FoxBox?

Use it just like normal. But here are some specifics to the app.
* Tap with one figure to click.
* Pinch to zoom.
* Slide to fingers up and down to scroll.
* If you want to bring up a keyboard, tap on the screen to get a set of icons to appear and then click the keyboard icon.
* Hold and slide one finger to pan (useful when zoomed in).
* If you want to do the equivalent to a right click, tap with two fingers.
* If you want to change the scaling or the dns settings, find the service android notification and click the settings. You have to stop and restart the app after changing these settings for them to take effect.

Why Use FoxBox?

Desktop Firefox has a different set of features than the Android mobile app. Also, websites behave different when opened in a desktop browser vs a mobile browser (even when you say you want the desktop version of a website).

Other tidbits:

FoxBox is fully open source with the source code posted on github: https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/FoxBox

What's New

Restore access to files outside of the FoxBox.
Those files can be accessed from the Firefox file browser at /sdcard/
For example, /sdcard/Documents will be your Android Documents directory

Version Information

Version: 25.04.18
Downloads: 1K+
Updated on: Apr 18, 2025
Released: Jan 7, 2023
Requires: Android 5.0

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FoxBox users say on Google Play

★★★★★

Thomas Dreyer

Once you get the hang of it it does work really well, far better than any of the other apps I tried. My laptop was stolen and I needed devtools on mobile. It is by no means a laptop replacement but I am able, with some effort, to achieve the task I have been trying to do with many other apps. Thank you to the devs.

★★★★

Josiah

Galaxy S23 audio not working. I have permissions enabled in app but websites will not play media. Also, everytime after disconnecting and reconnecting to a session the browser crashes, and asks to reload previous session

★★★

Rob Henry

It was easy to install, and fairly cheap. However, as another review pointed out, this is an ESR version of Firefox, so it is out of date and many Firefox add-ons don't work with it.

★★

War Pig

No sound on Samsung Galaxy S21 FE. And crashes when pressed info button

★

Clint E.

I love the concept, but there are some serious issues that should be addressed. The primarily being that it installs a Firefox ESR version that is 3 years old and is way behind, with no easy way to update. I ran into a few important extensions that wouldn't work due to this. This needs to have auto/manual updates capability or be maintained by provider. Beyond that, it works ok, but that is such a serious issue that I cannot recommend this.