Mozilla's entering the mobile OS arena now: Boot to Gecko

[Bateluer]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5062/mozilla-developing-open-web-os

Mozilla seems to be very serious about using open technologies and services for their OS. This should come as no surprise however, as Mozilla stands for open-source and the open web. In following that dictum, Mozilla has elected to use both the Android and Reliance Industries Limited backend to implement messaging. Telephony is the same, but also uses libaudio which is derived from Linux. Battery functions will be processed mostly via the Linux functions upower and sysfs, but with some Android elements as well. Contacts is derived from Android and also uses HTML5's IndexedDB. All of these functions are set to be powered by the Gecko rendering engine, tying into the Open Web mission.

I am very much a fan of the open web, open standards approach. Though, if this gets any traction at all, expect MS and Apple to swing in with lawsuits aplenty.

Still rough though, and a long way off from having a product. But, I definitely want to see what Mozilla and Canonical do with their mobile OS development.

 

[Red Storm]

It's never a bad thing to have more options. Interested in what they can come up with.

 

[lothar]

What a waste. It will be a futile effort for them.

 

[Deeko]

I wonder if it will be better than their mobile browser...

 

[s44]

They should have thrown in with Tizen instead of doing this silly Chrome-OS-on-phone stuff.

 

[ChronoReverse]

I honestly rather them optimize the speed of Mobile Firefox instead. The interface is great but the performance isn't there.