The Mozilla Foundation (in partnership with GeeksPhone) has just revealed that the first “Developer Preview” phones will be shipping with the new, Open Source, “Firefox OS” very, very shortly – ...

Mozilla has announced the global expansion of Firefox OS, with various major players getting on board with the open mobile operating system, including O2 owner Telefónica. At the Mobile World Congress ...

Mozilla Corp. is considering dropping support for Mac OS X 10.4 after it ships the successor to Firefox 3.5 in 2010, according to ongoing discussions. The talk of discontinuing Firefox for the “Tiger” ...

Back in 2013, when the iPhone and Android had cornered the smartphone market, a plucky new mobile operating system showed up that promised to bring a new kind of smartphone. One that was entirely ...

Mozilla announced today that its two-and-a-half year project to develop a smartphone operating system based on Linux and built using JavaScript and HTML5 will cease development. The organization made ...

Sony is the latest company to announce plans to release a phone featuring Mozilla’s open source and web-based Firefox OS. The Next Web reports that Sony and Spanish wireless operator Telefonica ...

Introduced in January 2013, Firefox OS is a new mobile, Linux-based open source operating system for smartphones from Mozilla, a free software community also known as the creators of the Firefox Web ...

As an idealistic thought experiment, the truly open Firefox OS (formerly Boot 2 Gecko) is captivating -- but in reality, as it prepares to enter one of the world's most fiercely competitive markets, ...

Figure 1. Mozilla's Firefox OS is designed for mobile platforms like smartphones providing functionalitysimilar to Android and iOS. The front facing browser interface makes it easier to customize. In ...

Mozilla has ended its ambitious entry into the smartphone race, saying Tuesday it will stop offering Firefox OS phones through operators. The withdrawal is unsurprising, even though Mozilla heralded ...

ZTE plans on launching another phone running Mozilla’s Firefox OS, this time with a dual-core processor, a bigger screen, and a revamped user experience, a company executive said on Tuesday. ZTE will ...