- Jan 24, 2011
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More than seven months after it stopped development of Firefox OS for the smartphone market, the Mozilla Foundation announced today plans to discontinue the project altogether.
The Foundation says Firefox OS 2.6 is the last OS version Mozilla engineers will work on and is urging the open source community to fork the project past this point and continue work on it outside of Mozilla's watchful eye.
Mozilla cites several reasons for its decision, but says that they have nothing to gain out of developing Firefox OS.
Firefox OS was supposed to be an Android killer
Also known as Boot2Gecko or B2G, Firefox OS was developed in 2013 and deployed on cheap smartphones. Mozilla had great plans for it, hoping to supersede Android on the mobile OS market.
Things didn't turn out as expected, and in December 2015, Mozilla announced it was pulling out of the smartphone market, with no immediate plans to release new B2G-powered smartphones.
In its initial announcement, the Foundation said it would continue to support Firefox OS development, but this didn't last long, and in February 2016, they announced the stoppage of Firefox OS development for smartphones altogether.
Read more: http://news.softpedia.com/news/mozilla-pulls-the-plug-on-firefox-os-for-good-508707.shtml
The Foundation says Firefox OS 2.6 is the last OS version Mozilla engineers will work on and is urging the open source community to fork the project past this point and continue work on it outside of Mozilla's watchful eye.
Mozilla cites several reasons for its decision, but says that they have nothing to gain out of developing Firefox OS.
Firefox OS was supposed to be an Android killer
Also known as Boot2Gecko or B2G, Firefox OS was developed in 2013 and deployed on cheap smartphones. Mozilla had great plans for it, hoping to supersede Android on the mobile OS market.
Things didn't turn out as expected, and in December 2015, Mozilla announced it was pulling out of the smartphone market, with no immediate plans to release new B2G-powered smartphones.
In its initial announcement, the Foundation said it would continue to support Firefox OS development, but this didn't last long, and in February 2016, they announced the stoppage of Firefox OS development for smartphones altogether.
Read more: http://news.softpedia.com/news/mozilla-pulls-the-plug-on-firefox-os-for-good-508707.shtml
