Mozilla's Firefox OS is based on Gecko-- the same core rendering engine that its desktop and mobile Firefox web browsers use. This unified framework goes to the essence of what Firefox and Mozilla are ...

Firefox is a free and open source web browser—the largest one that isn't tied to a corporation. Yet there was a briefly a time when Firefox was also a smartphone operating system. Firefox OS ...

As an idealistic thought experiment, the truly open Firefox OS (formerly Boot 2 Gecko) is captivating -- but in reality, as it prepares to enter one of the world's most fiercely competitive markets, ...

Mozilla, the free software community, is best known for its web browser Firefox. It was hinted last year that the company was developing mobile OS devices and they have finally revealed two phones: ...

Introduced in January 2013, Firefox OS is a new mobile, Linux-based open source operating system for smartphones from Mozilla, a free software community also known as the creators of the Firefox Web ...

Remember when Apple introduced the iPhone and insisted there was no need to let developers write third party apps in native code because they could just write web apps? Yeah, that didn’t work out so ...

Figure 1. Mozilla's Firefox OS is designed for mobile platforms like smartphones providing functionalitysimilar to Android and iOS. The front facing browser interface makes it easier to customize. In ...

Google must have looked into porting Chrome to Mobile, but haven't yet, so maybe Firefox OS is slightly ahead of its time. But looking at Chrome OS, it works as a fast lightweight system, especially ...

The first Firefox OS-based devices goes on sale this week at an attractive price, so what's it like? After several months of anticipation, the first smartphones based on the Mozilla Firefox operating ...