Mozilla Announces Firefox OS Developer Phones
This is the year Firefox OS launches, and Mozilla has kicked it off with the next stage for their OS.
This is the year Firefox OS launches, and Mozilla has kicked it off with the next stage for their OS.
The Firefox OS Simulator is distributed as a Firefox add-on, which when installed allows you to launch Firefox OS straight from Firefox.
Mozilla has released an addon to firefox, called r2d2b2g which allows developers to install and use the simulator for Firefox OS on their very own desktop. This is expected to come in handy for a lot of people who do not have direct access to an actual device.
Nokia has announced a string of updates and a rebranding to its mapping services. Besides Lumia phones, it is also opening up to iOS and Android devices which are soon to receive a bounty of Here maps and an SDK for the Android platform.
Just recently Mozilla developers created an add-on that would allow you to install, run and test Firefox OS straight from the browser. Now they have added another convenient way to test Firefox OS.
If you have been itching to have a look at Mozilla’s upcoming smartphone operating system Firefox OS you now have the perfect opportunity to try it out. Mozilla has released an extension that lets you test the OS on your own computer in an emulator.
Imagine an OS that has only a browser installed, boots straight into it. This is the premise of both Firefox OS and Chrome OS, but the similarities end there.