Firefox OS is the only one of this year’s new smartphone operating systems that’s installed on a phone you can actually buy, and now, Mozilla has announced the arrival of an update, taking the ...

Mozilla will instead focus on new product innovations in the Internet of Things space. Just in case you missed the memo: Mozilla's Firefox OS is officially dead. In a Thursday announcement, head of ...

If all you saw was the big news about Mozilla giving up on Firefox OS for phones, you might be surprised to hear that the commercial project was still active. But it was. In fact, Panasonic released a ...

Released in 2013, Firefox OS was supposed to pick up where webOS left off, with a mobile operating system built on open web standards like HTML5. Unlike Apple and Google who chased performance gains ...

With asm.js and WebGL technologies, Mozilla's browser-based mobile OS will soon get games like Where's My Water. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

Andreas Gal, co-founder of Mozilla's mobile OS project, joins others from the project in a startup to link new devices to the Net. It's part of big changes coming to Firefox OS. Stephen Shankland ...

The dying embers of Firefox OS have finally been put out. It doesn’t really come as a surprise, considering Mozilla announced back in December at “Mozlando” that it was ending development and would ...

First announced four years ago as "Boot to Gecko," Firefox OS was an interesting concept. Partially based on Android, it was an open-source operating system entirely powered by web technologies. All ...

An earlier Linux-based open-source operating system from the Mozilla project. Firefox OS ran HTML5-based Web applications and came with a set of default apps that were part of its Gaia user interface.

After almost two years of development, Mozilla today officially launched Firefox OS devices in stores. At the same time, the company has opened up payments for developers interested in charging for ...

You can come down on one side or the other of how practically big the planned Chrome OS will be. My take is skeptical, and as often happens, my colleague Michael Hickins disagrees. But getting stuck ...