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.
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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.
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Successors to Firefox OS include the discontinued B2G OS and Acadine Technologies' H5OS as well as KaiOS Technologies' KaiOS and Panasonic's My Home Screen.
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Firefox OS was publicly demonstrated in February 2012, on Android-compatible smartphones.
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In September 2016 Mozilla announced that work on Firefox OS had ceased, and that all B2G-related code would be removed from mozilla-central.
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Firefox OS characterized the current set of mobile operating systems as "walled gardens" and presented Firefox OS as more accessible: "We use completely open standards and there's no proprietary software or technology involved.
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Firefox OS is compatible with a number of devices, including Otoro, PandaBoard, Emulator, Desktop, Nexus S, Nexus S 4G, Samsung Galaxy S II, Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4.
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Mozilla's planned US$25 Firefox OS smartphone displayed at MWC, is built by Spreadtrum.
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B2G OS was forked from Firefox OS following Mozilla's decision to discontinue support for their mobile operating system.
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Firefox OS used the Gecko engine on top of the Linux kernel to render the screen output.
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In essence apps on Firefox OS were web apps and the OS could be thought of as a Web browser that stored content off-line.
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Firefox OS launched its first official device in Germany in 2014, which was an Alcatel One Touch Fire.
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Chris Ziegler of the technology website The Verge wrote that Firefox OS would take app distribution to the pre-iPhone era, requiring application developers to deal with multiple carriers and their app stores.
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At the Mobile World Congress, Mozilla's CEO Gary Kovacs said that Firefox OS has the advantage that users need not install an app to use it.
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