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 ...

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 ...

Mozilla confirmed Tuesday that it was halting development on Firefox OS in its current incarnation, putting an end to more than four years of work building a browser-based, smartphone operating system ...

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 ...

Firefox OS hasn’t exactly broken into the mainstream, despite making inroads in some markets in Latin America and Europe. Its dream of breaking the iOS/Android duopoly remains a long way off. Indeed, ...

Looking to grow its business beyond just building Apple devices, manufacturing giant Foxconn will reportedly build smartphones running Firefox OS, a new mobile operating system built by the Web ...

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 ...

Mozilla’s Firefox OS is an operating system designed around the same technology used in the Firefox web browser. It’s based on open source software and designed to make it easy for anyone to create ...