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| Mozilla: "Firefox OS is a huge and scary step" |
| By Thom Holwerda, submitted by Markus Su on 2012-08-13 00:20:20 |
| Mozilla's Dave Mason, when asked by derStandard.at what the most scary part of Firefox' roadmap is: "It has to be Firefox OS which is a huge step for Mozilla. It is exciting and scary at the same time. This is the first time we had to partner with some other companies to get to the end results so that's a hard transition for us." I commend Mozilla for attempting this. I've been trying out Firefox on my Nexus 7 today, and it's really, really good (save for the interface, which needs some serious Holo love). If this is an indication for what Firefox OS is going to be like - good on 'm. |
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| I want one |
| By Gone fishing on 2012-08-13 08:11:11 |
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Committed to producing an open product on cheap devices. I want one. No doubt we will see a flurry of litigation from Apple when the products hit the market, but I'm confident this will fail, even in the US in the medium / long run. |
 - Score: 5 |
| Firefox for Android |
| By rdean400 on 2012-08-13 10:11:17 |
| When Firefox for Android came out, I dropped the Android browser like a hot potato. I tried Chrome for Android, but I like Firefox better. |
| - Score: 3 |
| Firefox Browser |
| By comrad on 2012-08-13 10:19:15 |
| I would really appreciate it if they would concentrate on that Firefox is. A freaking Browser. They have alot of potential but they seem to do anything else than improving Firefox... |
| - Score: 4 |
| Why? |
| By JoshuaS on 2012-08-13 10:41:54 |
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I don't get why Mozilla wants to put resources into a browser OS, when by the success of Chrome it's crystal-clear that nobody wants such a thing. Seriously, I have been a Firefox enthousiast for 10 years. I remember getting my hands on it as a teenager when it was still called Phoenix. I remember how I used to advocate Firefox to my nerdy friends and my family. But it's getting harder and harder to stay on this ship. Firefox crashes all the time on Windows 7. And no, it's not always Flash player. Sometimes Firefox itself even closes randomly and I lose my entire session, even when just reading an ASCII man page for a UNIX-command online! It's becoming more and more unusable as the years go by! If the Firefox team is not going to get its priorities straight soon instead of this Szeleney-like behavior and actually make Firefox a joy to use again, I'm afraid that after all this time Firefox and me will have to part ways. And that makes me sad. |
| - Score: 3 |
| "Firefox OS is a huge and scary step"? No surprise! |
| By renox on 2012-08-13 11:07:00 |
| Given that they didn't even manage to rework Firefox's architecture to allow a process per website (a la Chrome), I would trust a Firefox OS as much as Windows95 i.e. not at all. |
| - Score: 4 |
| RE: Why? |
| By pandronic on 2012-08-13 11:51:19 |
| I'm not denying your experience and I've read comments from a few other people having the same experience, but this Firefox behavior is a mystery to me. On several low and high end systems, Windows 7 and XP powered I've never encountered anything like that. Maybe it's some corner case or something specific to a certain usage pattern? |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE: Firefox for Android |
| By dnebdal on 2012-08-13 11:56:23 |
| I do use firefox on the desktop - but on android I still prefer opera mobile. It has recently grown into a good alternative, though. :) |
| - Score: 3 |
| RE: "Firefox OS is a huge and scary step"? No surprise! |
| By Lennie on 2012-08-13 13:17:40 |
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Judging by the description, they do use seperate processes: The b2g process may spawn a number of low-rights "content processes". These are where web applications and other web content are loaded. These process communicate with the main Gecko server process through IPDL, a message-passing system. https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Arch... Basically, what Chrome does. There are many reasons why Mozilla didn't change their architecture. The most important one is obviously compatibility with existing code. With B2G they didn't have that limitation. Edited 2012-08-13 13:22 UTC |
| - Score: 1 |
| RE: "Firefox OS is a huge and scary step"? No surprise! |
| By Radio on 2012-08-13 13:22:35 |
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Oh, please. Why do you think nobody did it before Chrome? That solution is not better than the other: there are tradeoffs. One-process-per-tab is using a lot of ressources and makes it more difficult for add-ons to modify a webpage (e.g. Adblock in firefox blocks ads before they begin to download whereas Adblock in Chrome only hides/discharges them after they load). Why do you want Firefox to look more like Chrome (which, alas, is the trend)? Use Chrome. |
| - Score: 4 |
| RE: Firefox Browser |
| By Radio on 2012-08-13 13:27:35 |
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Don't you think the work they are doing to optimize their code on mobile devices will improve all their products? Sometimes, you don't solve your problems by working head-on on them, like you don't improve code by hiring more programmers to work on it. Like the Linux kernel history shows, working on side-projects may bring unexpected benefits. |
| - Score: 4 |
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