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Firefox O.S death


Let me start from the beginning so that no one is left out. O.S. aka operating system is a special type of software that device use to enable them run according e.g. MS windows, ubuntu android, Firefox os etc.

Firefox I guess by now all of you know it’s an open source browser and am sure a bunch of you are using it right now to read this article.

 Now since we are on the same boat let’s explore what happened to this baby.
Firefox o.s was first realized on February 21st 2013. Developed by Mozilla (obviously) and was coded in css, HTML4, JavaScript and c++. This designed to basically run on smartphones and tablet computers.

It is based on the rendering engine of the Firefox web browser, Gecko, and on the Linux kernel.

Firefox OS was designed to provide a complete community-based alternative operating system, for running web applications directly or those installed from an application marketplace. With this open web based APIs the applications can directly communicate with the hardware.

This operating system joined the big giants like apples ios, Google’s android, jollas sailfish o.s and many more.

The Death

To some,me included this was a very good ideas which had kicked off and followed it to the point that the os has stabilized and deployed to phones and shipping them.

Sadly enough as this was supposed to take over the world but the numbers (profits) were still falling off the cliff and at some point Mozilla did not see any necessity to continue with the project. This came to reality as it stared to lay off staff in that department

Apparently the current mobile os giants did not give Mozilla a chance in the competition. How they are shifting gears and going towards the IOT world.

 In a statement Mozilla said; "We have shifted our internal approach to the internet-of-things opportunity to step back from a focus on launching and scaling commercial products to one focused on research and advanced development, dissolving our connected devices initiative and incorporating our internet-of-things explorations into an increased focus on emerging technologies,"

With this in mind let’s see how it rolls out as we all know IOT is the new thing that’s taking over everything.  What am still to find out is what happens to the devices that were rolled out? Do uses have to flash the O.S? when will Mozilla switch off their o.s servers?

This are just but a few questions that I still have to find answers to. If you out there and you have the answers fill free to hit the comment section.  


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