At yesterday’s Mobile 2.0<\/a>\u00a0conference in San Francisco, Mozilla and Telef\u00f3nica did a presentation of the soon to be released Firefox OS<\/a>. Formerly known as Boot 2 Gecko (B2G), Firefox OS is a smartphone operating system optimized for relatively low end hardware and targeted at customers in developing economies.<\/p>\n
Firefox\u00a0OS is a fully open project with code in\u00a0Github\u00a0and\u00a0Bugzilla. Community\u00a0bug reports and code contributions are\u00a0welcomed. Firefox\u00a0will submit specs for its new low level JavaScript\u00a0APIs\u00a0to the W3C as proposed standards.\u00a0If you are interested in contributing, the\u00a0B2G\/GetInvolved<\/a>\u00a0page in the Mozilla Wiki is the place to start.<\/p>\n
If you want to try out Firefox OS, you can run Firefox OS’s Gaia \u00a0UI\u00a0in Firefox<\/a> on a PC or build it from source following instructions here<\/a>\u00a0and then either run in a\u00a0emulator or on an actual phone. Supported devices<\/a> include specific versions of the Samsung\u00a0Galaxy\u00a0S II, Samsung Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus.<\/p>\n
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At yesterday’s Mobile 2.0\u00a0conference in San Francisco, Mozilla and Telef\u00f3nica did a presentation of the soon to be released Firefox OS. Formerly known as Boot 2 Gecko (B2G), Firefox OS is a smartphone operating system optimized for relatively low end hardware and targeted at customers in developing economies. The Firefox OS architecture is relatively simple. It consists of the Mozilla Gecko layout engine and JIT JavaScript compiler running directly on a hardware abstraction layer sitting on top of a generic … Continue reading