On December 8, 2015, Mozilla announced that it would stop sales of Firefox OS smartphones through carriers. By December 16, 2014, fourteen operators in 28 countries throughout the world offered Firefox OS phones. History įirefox OS was publicly demonstrated in February 2012, on Android-compatible smartphones. Successors to Firefox OS include the discontinued B2G OS and Acadine Technologies' H5OS as well as KaiOS Technologies' KaiOS and Panasonic's My Home Screen.

In December 2015, Mozilla announced it would stop development of new Firefox OS smartphones and, in September 2016, announced the end of development.

As such, Mozilla with Firefox OS competed with commercially developed operating systems such as Apple's iOS, Google's Android, Microsoft's Windows Phone, BlackBerry's BlackBerry 10, Samsung's/ Linux Foundation's Tizen, and Jolla's Sailfish OS. The applications use open standards and approaches such as JavaScript and HTML5, a robust privilege model, and open web APIs that can communicate directly with hardware, e.g. It was first commercially released in 2014.įirefox OS was designed to provide a complete, community-based alternative operating system, for running web applications directly or those installed from an application marketplace. It is based on the rendering engine of the Firefox web browser, Gecko, and on the Linux kernel. Firefox OS (project name: Boot to Gecko, also known as B2G) is a discontinued open-source operating system – made for smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, and dongles designed by Mozilla and external contributors.

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