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===GeckoView===
In September 2018, Mozilla announced GeckoView, the foundation of Mozilla's next generation of mobile products based on a software library that makes Gecko reusable for Android, encompassing newer software development efforts to "decouple the engine itself from its user interface, and made it easy to embed in other applications". Firefox Focus 7.0, shipped in the same month,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://techdows.com/2018/09/firefox-focus-7-0-to-use-geckoview-gecko-engine.html|title=Firefox Focus 7.0 enters beta, Switches to GeckoView (Gecko Engine)|date=14 September 2018|access-date=19 September 2019|archive-date=31 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731225124/https://techdows.com/2018/09/firefox-focus-7-0-to-use-geckoview-gecko-engine.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> is the initial version introduced GeckoView, with increased performance in median page loading.<ref name="focus-with-geckoview">{{cite web|url=https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/09/focus-with-geckoview/|title=Firefox Focus with GeckoView|date=September 13, 2018|website=Mozilla Hacks|access-date=September 4, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://support.mozilla.org/kb/whats-new-firefox-focus-android-version-7|title=What's new in Firefox Focus for Android (version 7) {{!}} Firefox Focus Help|website=support.mozilla.org|language=en-US|access-date=September 4, 2019}}</ref> Firefox Reality was also built with GeckoView.<ref name="focus-with-geckoview" /> In June 2019, Mozilla announced Firefox Preview as an ongoing project that focuses on building an Android web browser with GeckoView.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/06/geckoview-in-2019/|title=GeckoView in 2019|date=June 27, 2019|website=Mozilla Hacks|access-date=September 4, 2019}}</ref> Firefox for Android 79, also known as "Firefox Daylight", first shipping in August 2020, is the first stable release of that with major components powered by GeckoView engine.<ref>{{Cite web|date=August 25, 2020|title=Fast, personalized and private by design on all platforms: introducing a new Firefox for Android experience|author=Vesta Zare|url=https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/25/introducing-a-new-firefox-for-android-experience/|access-date=September 22, 2020|website=Mozilla Blog|language=en-US}}</ref>