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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's been real, Firefox OS. Mozilla's Firefox OS isn't strictly speaking dead, but it may as well be as far as smartphones are concerned. The company announced via email that it would stop supporting ...

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 ...

This week at the developer event Mozlando, Mozilla revealed that Firefox OS was dead. At the same time, they really didn't. They suggested that they'd no longer be bringing the smartphone love with ...

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 ...

Mozilla outlined its Firefox OS mobile platform, served up some notable screens and highlighted a bevy of global carrier partners in emerging and developed markets. Although the initiative is notable, ...

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.