Firefox OS
Firefox OS is an open-source operating system which made for smartphones, tablet computers and smart TVs designed by Mozilla and external contributors, based on the rendering engine of their Firefox web browser and the Linux kernel.
Firefox OS is designed to provide a complete and community based alternative operating system, for running web applications directly on mobile or those installed from an application marketplace. The applications use open standards and approaches such as JavaScript and HTML 5, a robust privilege model, open web APIs that can communicate directly with hardware, e.g. cellphone hardware. As such, it competes with commercially developed operating systems such as Apple's iOS, Google's Android, Microsoft's Windows Phone, BlackBerry's BlackBerry 10 and Jolla's Sailfish OS.
Firefox OS was publicly demonstrated in February 2012, on Android compatible smartphones. By December 16, 2014, Firefox OS phones were offered from 14 operators in 28 countries throughout the world.
On December 8, 2015, Mozilla announced that it will stop sales of Firefox OS smartphones through carriers. Mozilla later announced that Firefox OS phones would be discontinued by May 2016 as the development of "Firefox OS for smartphones" would cease after the release of version 2.6. Around the same time, it was reported that Acadine Technologies, a startup founded by Li Gong (former president of Mozilla Corporation) with various other former Mozilla staff among its employees, would take over the mission of developing carrier partnerships, for its own Firefox OS derivative H5 OS.
In January 2016, Mozilla announced that Firefox OS would power Panasonic's UHD TVs (as previously announced Firefox OS "would pivot to connected devices").
Development history:
- In July 2012, Boot to Gecko was re-branded as 'Firefox OS', after Mozilla's well-known desktop browser, Firefox, and screenshots began appearing in August 2012.
- In September 2012, analysts Strategy Analysts forecast that Firefox OS would account for 1% of the global smartphone market in 2013 – its first year of commercial availability.
- In February 2013, Mozilla announced plans for global commercial roll-out of Firefox OS. Mozilla announced at a press conference before the start of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that the first wave of Firefox OS devices will be available to consumers in Brazil, Colombia, Hungary, Mexico, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Spain and Venezuela. Mozilla has also announced that LG Electronics, ZTE, Huawei and TCL Corporation have committed to making Firefox OS devices.
- In December 2013, new features were added with the 1.2 release, including conference calling, silent SMS authentication for mobile billing, improved push notifications, and three state setting for Do Not Track.
- Async Pan and Zoom (APZ), included in version 1.3, should improve user interface responsiveness.
- Work is currently being done to optimize Firefox OS to run a 128 MB platform with version 1.3T. A 128 MB device is out that seems to use that version but it may be unfinished.
- In 2015, Mozilla ported Firefox OS (an "experimental version") to MIPS32 to work in a sub-$100 tablet (that can also run Android 4.4 KitKat). Mozilla has also begun the development of Smart Feature Phones.
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