The Mozilla Firefox browser has been around for along time now and is available on almost every platform. But unlike some of it's competitors Internet Explorer and Safari, it doesn't have a platform to call it's own.
This is probably about to change as Mozilla has been developing "a complete stand-alone operating system for the web" named Boot to Gecko abbreviated B2G built specially for mobile devices. The name as some of you would know comes from the Gecko rending engine which runs both Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird.
This is probably about to change as Mozilla has been developing "a complete stand-alone operating system for the web" named Boot to Gecko abbreviated B2G built specially for mobile devices. The name as some of you would know comes from the Gecko rending engine which runs both Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird.
According to Mozilla B2G will be aimed at giving developers the opportunity to build HTML 5 applications with functionality similar to native applications. A process similar to that on Google Chrome and what we will see in the upcoming Windows 8. B2G will also borrow some code from the open source Android platform while Mozilla says that most of the system will be freshly coded. The product will be an open-source project with it's code being shared as soon as it is written. The goal is not be build applications that will only run on Firefox but applications which can run on any platform on the web.
Apple, Google and Microsoft dominate the mobile platforms with their propitiatory operating systems. With Android already attained popularity coupled with Mozilla's popular browser, there is no doubt B2G will get more than a little attention. I am curious if we will be able to install our choice of mobile operating system on our devices in the near future, like we would on our laptops or PCs. Especially since B2G will share some of Android's foundation.
source - Mozilla