Summary
Summary
- Mozilla has lifted the 50GB monthly cap on Firefox’s free built-in VPN through January 31, 2027.
- The offer is available to eligible Firefox users on desktop and Android with a free Mozilla account. iOS support is coming soon.
- The VPN helps hide the sites you visit from airport and hotel Wi-Fi operators. It covers only traffic within Firefox. From now until January 31, 2027, Mozilla allows you to use the free built-in VPN in Firefox without the 50GB monthly data cap. The offer began on November 10, according to Mozilla’s announcement, and it’s available for users on desktop and Android, with iOS support said to be coming soon. As reported recently, Firefox brought its free VPN to Android with the same standard 50GB-per-month allowance that’s also available on the desktop version. Normally, your allowance resets at the start of each month, but Firefox wants to ensure there’s one less thing to worry about during the holiday travel season, when a VPN comes in very handy. You can leave Firefox’s VPN on for the whole trip Although checking a boarding pass or looking up directions won’t put much of a dent in the original 50GB allowance, knowing that your internet usage isn’t going to compromise a security layer when traveling can certainly give you peace of mind. The extra data is more useful if you’re going to spend a week or two working from a hotel or streaming a few movies in Firefox during a long layover. A VPN can provide a decent layer of protection, especially when you’re connecting to random airport and hotel Wi-Fi networks as you travel. Even when you connect to a hotspot, the person running it may still be able to tell which sites you visit, despite the HTTPS encryption. With the built-in VPN on, Firefox routes your browsing through a proxy that helps hide those visits from the network operator. This only shows the internet provider (or anyone else monitoring the router’s traffic) that you’re connected to a proxy, and the website you’re visiting will also see that there’s a connection coming from that proxy and won’t see your location-based IP address. Moreover, Firefox allows you to pick from a list of locations for your VPN proxy. If you’re traveling abroad and rely on services that only work in your home country, a VPN that connects you back to your original location can be a life-saver. Mozilla says it doesn’t keep any records of the sites you visit through the built-in VPN. The unlimited data applies to traffic inside Firefox A VPN with unlimited data is great, but you have to understand that it only works within Firefox, and it’s not a system-wide service. So long as you open everything within the browser, it can offer you that extra layer of privacy. However, the VPN won’t apply when you open your emails through the Gmail app or use other apps that connect to the internet (e.g., WhatsApp or Instagram). You’ll need a free Mozilla account to get started. On the desktop version, look for the VPN icon in the toolbar. On Android, open Firefox’s three-dot menu and navigate to Settings > VPN. On iOS, unfortunately, you’ll have to wait for further notice from the company.