Looks nice though I have to wonder how good is its support for hardware? Also if they make a phone how would they distribute apps or would everything be online?They have a marketplace that is completely open, so from what I understand about it, no gatekeepers. Hardware support is it will run on anything that can run android. They use a custom android kernel. Take a look here (https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/HardwareRequirements) for more information on that.
so, who's excited?Well, I am obviously :P
Looking pretty good. I just hope it doesn't have the same problem as the browser with the random freezing. the that's fixable if you have the patience I guess? :PI use Fx nightly, the random freezing hardly happens. Usually it only happens with downloads. I've also noticed that the random freezing only happens on windows.
Seems nice. Hopefully it offers as much freedom in terms of app downloads as Android, if not more. Unlike Apple <.<It offers more freedom, see:
I've been following this ever since it was first announced.Looks nice though I have to wonder how good is its support for hardware? Also if they make a phone how would they distribute apps or would everything be online?They have a marketplace that is completely open, so from what I understand about it, no gatekeepers.
Looking very nice! But how would cam and so on work then?They have created a api for handling it. The first link I give in my post is where you can find out about all that. The camera api is actually suppose to become a standard in all browsers too.
i havent seen it when browsing through but I may have just missed it but how do they control what apps have what permissions? I'd hate for a random web page to be able to access my camera and call people.They are in the middle of changing how that is done to something that follows html5 standards or something right now. I'm not entirely sure what it's being changed to, I haven't really read up on it.
Hopefully as time goes by its startup speed will not become as bad as Firefox on anything lower than a dual core system with 8 GB of RAM (about one minute more than IE, Chrome and Opera) and it will not crash every 30 second like Firefox 1 through 3 (I think I had crashes on more recent versions of Firefox browser too) when a site uses Flash or Javascript.Startup speed is 12 seconds for a cold boot on older phones. 8 seconds on newer ones. Shutdown is instant.
That is good. My Samsung Galaxy 551 takes like 20 seconds to boot and 12-15 seconds to shut down >.<I have the exact same phone. Is it released yet? If so, I wonder if you can test it on an emulator already (like how you can with the Android SDK) and/or someone will provide a way to replace our Android roms with it, like Cyanogenmod and stuff like that. Anyway that looks pretty nice.
For the nexus s there have been a few roms packaged. It's not always up to date though.That is good. My Samsung Galaxy 551 takes like 20 seconds to boot and 12-15 seconds to shut down >.<I have the exact same phone. Is it released yet? If so, I wonder if you can test it on an emulator already (like how you can with the Android SDK) and/or someone will provide a way to replace our Android roms with it, like Cyanogenmod and stuff like that. Anyway that looks pretty nice.
As for the market, they already have experience with their addon site, I guess they'll use the same technology.Thanks, I completely missed that lol.
EDIT: After reading the blog posts, I'm like, omg can't wait installing that thing on my device, then telling DJ_O about it how it runs faster and everything.
EDIT2: It's all there: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS
Do they make use of enough threads ? :PI think having a different process for each tab is a waste of RAM. That's why I don't use Chromium or Chrome.
That's actually one of the reasons I use Chromium on my computer, because (my computer is not that fast) pages regularly freeze and that causes the entire browser to hang.
looks awesome. I dont have a smartphone tho. (nor any other 'smart' device except calc lol)You can test it on your computer :)
installing that thing on my device
Yes, well, you can put a modified Android rom on your phone, so you can replace it with something else.installing that thing on my device
We can remove Android from a phone?? O.O
Free and open source software FTW!;)
@Eeems I doubt the threading on B2G will be any different than current firefox. But on the Tab memory wasting point, keep in mind that RAM is currently very cheap, computation-wise. The extra ~100 MB I might use, max, is made up for by the advantages, like allowing one tab to crash while the others live on, and I don't mind because I have another 6 GB of RAM free either way.I have 8GB and I don't like anything filling up more then 1GB of it. While I know ram is cheap, I have regularly filled up all my ram due to things I work on ( VM's etc ) so having a separate process per tab taking up extra ram, and filling up my task manager. No not ok with it. I'd rather it was a separate thread per tab, which makes more sense in my mind. I very rarely have Fx crash on me and when it does I just restart it and get back to where I was.