Re: [b2g] Firefox os concept

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:54:58 -0800

Firefox OS is not running on top of Android nor dependent to it... Although it uses the same lower level OS (Linux) that communicates with the device capabilities that Android also uses, it's pretty much just that.

So... Why Firefox OS?

Q: Why do you think Firefox OS is important?

A: Here are a few reasons.

  • Firefox OS kills the idea of mobile Web connectivity only being for the rich in the western world. Yes, for those in the US or the UK having a new shiny phone every half year is not an issue. But that is just not affordable to everyone, and even if it was, in many countries if you have no credit card you couldn’t even buy apps for those phones. This is unfair, elitist and plainly against anything the web stands for. Firefox OS is affordable, and apps can be bought on prepay or on your phone bill.

  • Firefox OS does not assume a fast, stable and always available connection. When traveling I start hating my Android phone (which I love to bits otherwise.) Having dozens of megabyte updates over roaming is out of the question and neither is using flaky and slow wireless connections. Firefox OS has no native apps – all of them, including the system apps are written in HTML, CSS and _javascript_. Thus they are much smaller and can have atomic updates instead of having to be replaced as a unit every single time.

  • Firefox OS is the web in your pocket. It is Firefox and nothing else (other than a Linux core to access the hardware). Thus I will not be told to “download the native app” when I go to Web sites that are perfectly fine to use.

  • Firefox OS is the platform HTML5deserves. For developers, our HTML5 solutions are finally first-class citizens. We are not shoved into a slower Web view and told we can not access the hardware.

  • Firefox OS apps are Web-distributed apps. Users can go to the marketplace and find our apps by hand or via review or they could search for a certain song, movie, football team and dish and find our app that way. App discovery is as simple as using the Web and finding Web sites.

Source: http://blog.mozilla.org/theden/2013/07/12/what-firefox-os-means-for-you/

if you can have all the app launchers in andriod
and is it just like a browser, but can launch web apps, like google chrome?

Everything you see and use on Firefox OS is basically a web app. 

Plus, you can make an app in Firefox OS using web technologies.

 Even the default phone launcher is a web app. Therefore, you can't run Android launchers or Android widgets in Firefox OS because it's not Android and Firefox OS is a different platform. 

Hope this helps!

Best Regards,

Aaron Cajes

Mozilla Rep in the Philippines
Mozilla Philippines Community

www.aaroncajes.com
www.mozillaphilippines.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 10:30 AM
Subject: [b2g] Firefox os concept

i read more about the firefox os
to my understanding it is an os running on top of andriod and it is web based and runs web apps

i have a question
why the firefox os?
if you can have all the app launchers in andriod
and is it just like a browser, but can launch web apps, like google chrome?

please correct me on my understanding of firefox os so i can contributr
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