Mozilla VPN - Secure & Private 4+

Not quite there yet

When it works it's excellent, but too often it fails to re-establish a VPN connection after a spell offline and I find myself having to manually re-activate the VPN connection. Perhaps I was spoiled by my previous VPN software, which was excellent at auto-connecting, but to my mind this is something a VPN running on a tablet should be much better at.

Apart from that gripe, it's a very satisfactory VPN. It amazes me that Apple don't build a VPN service into iOS/iPadOS but as long as they don't this is 80% of the way there. Improve auto-connection and that'd get to 95%.

(To get to 100%, they'd need to let me add domains to a whitelist within the VPN so I could avoid needing to manually disable my VPN and then remember to reactivate the VPN afterwards when I hit a domain - typically a site featuring streaming media - that won't work when I try to connect through a VPN.)

Does what it says on the tin

I gave a review when I hadn’t had the app for very long, which perhaps wasn’t too useful. After reading that one user who reviewed it had connection problems, I’d like to confirm that I’ve got no problems here. Maybe the app has improved.

I have found that this VPN does what it says on the tin and doesn’t try to increase the subscription by plaguing your device with a load of software you don’t want/already have. It makes it so much simpler to use with a lower footprint. I hope the number of servers can increase, but there are plenty even if that didn’t happen. I’ve noticed more sites refusing to allow VPN’s to connect, not sure what could be done about that. Deep packet inspection and blocking a range of IP addresses aren’t always easy to get around.

Good, simple and compact. But…

For starters: The app itself is fast, compact and simple. Hopefully they don’t add unwanted features and fix stuff that isn’t broken.

The VPN itself is brilliant: fast to connect, so fast to use also that I usually forget it’s on, stays secure/connected. But it is early days and server load won’t be too high yet, rest of this year will be quite telling.

HOWEVER.
There’s NO INTEGRATION with Firefox browser on ANY devices. This makes ZERO sense whatsoever and I subscribed on my laptop assuming that the most basic feature would be there…

There are simple extensions for numerous VPNs, but Mozilla doesn’t have one for their OWN browser? Not even an extension, if an having it as an inclusive feature is out of bounds. Or at the very least have a separate VPN-incorporated browser!! Can’t even begin to question the logic behind this… it would be a huge selling point and very useful for many who don’t wish to install Mozilla VPN. I have no idea how this isn’t a thing given they advertise it on Firefox.

Developer Response ,

Hi, thank you so much for sharing your feedback!

We would love to hear more about your feedback and thoughts on possible improvements for Mozillla VPN, feel free to send us a support request for this issue through the Get Help option found within the Settings of the VPN client. We'll be happy to take on your case!