March 2, 2012 at 15:46Boot to Gecko - a look at the mobile OS from Mozilla [Video]
Perhaps some know that Mozilla , the developer of the popular Firefox browser, is preparing to release its own mobile OS , codenamed Boot to Gecko . The creators mainly focus on web platform orientation, more precisely, all shells, applications and interfaces will be written in HTML5 .
At MWC, we managed to find out a few details about the unusual development and look at the alpha version of the system itself.
As a test device was taken smartphone Samsung Galaxy SII . She Boot to Gecko (B2G) was installed on top of the All Android , and in the future users will be able to install it on rutovannye smartphones. So far, the system is raw and slows down a lot, but you should not demand too much from such an early build.
An undoubted advantage of B2G is that applications written for it can work on any device with a browser. In addition, it will most likely be distributed free of charge just like Mozilla Firefox. The company is negotiating with various manufacturers of phones on possible cooperation.
At MWC, we managed to find out a few details about the unusual development and look at the alpha version of the system itself.
As a test device was taken smartphone Samsung Galaxy SII . She Boot to Gecko (B2G) was installed on top of the All Android , and in the future users will be able to install it on rutovannye smartphones. So far, the system is raw and slows down a lot, but you should not demand too much from such an early build.
An undoubted advantage of B2G is that applications written for it can work on any device with a browser. In addition, it will most likely be distributed free of charge just like Mozilla Firefox. The company is negotiating with various manufacturers of phones on possible cooperation.