Mozilla's Webian Shell

[Ink]

Webian Shell is similar to ChromeOS, but using Mozilla's technology.



About - http://webian.org/about/
The Webian project is a not-for-profit venture founded by Ben Francis. Ben is a full time software engineer at a startup in Cambridge (England).

Download - http://webian.org/shell/download/

 

[silviu_c]

It's not for me because I do not use my computer as a phone. Heck I don't use my android phone like a phone But I can certainly see the appeal for people that do so.

 

[jamescv7]

Hmm.. it can be appeal to people since most users are fan in Mozilla.

 

[Shadow Death]

Does anyone else find it disturbing that Mozilla cranked this out in a matter of months and google has been working on the ChromeOS for years now? If that's not enough, the ChromeOS is it's own OS and this thing runs on top of another OS and still out performs it.

 

[new user]

No, it's not for me because I know how to use the F11 button on my keyboard in either Firefox or Chromium.

 

[jamescv7]

Webian have their future release

Future
0.2

In the 0.2 release I’d like to focus on fixing bugs and implementing some obvious features.

Bugs:

Problems with full screen in Windows
Doesn’t work with key web sites like GMail and Twitter
CSS looking wrong on some web sites
Odd behaviour when you have too many tabs open to fit on one line
Favicon doesn’t always change when it should
Switching tabs makes flash objects reset themselves
The address bar sometimes shows the wrong URL

Features:

Keyboard shortcuts
Open link in a new tab
Auto-select address bar
Re-arrange tabs

0.3

The features for 0.3 are open for debate, but I’d really like to start looking into integrating Mozilla’s Open Web Apps.
1.0

I’d like to start mapping out a roadmap to a Webian Shell 1.0 release, and then a roadmap for a Webian OS which comes bundled with Webian Shell as the front end.

To me Webian Shell 1.0 should be good enough to be a drop-in replacement for Gnome or KDE on Linux which allows you to use web sites and web apps, but also do basic operating system functions like changing system volume, configuring displays, configuring network devices etc.

I think it’s unlikely that we’ll be able to implement all of these features in a cross-platform way, but it would be nice to keep maintaining an app which can run on Windows and Mac for people to try out if possible.

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[new user]

Does anyone else find it disturbing that Mozilla cranked this out in a matter of months and google has been working on the ChromeOS for years now? If that's not enough, the ChromeOS is it's own OS and this thing runs on top of another OS and still out performs it.

Google is creating an operating system (it's really linux). They are completely integrating Chrome in to Low level OS tasks. It takes a lot of work. This is just a hack-and-slash Firefox stuck in full-screen and is a bit more stripped down.

 

[Jaspion]

My goodness. First he's about a clean look that puts web apps in the forefront. Then he's talking about the buttons, top and bottom, clock, new functions to come, multiple homes, hardware controls (such as volume), I mean, he's recreating the actual OS in the app. Sorry, it seems totally redundant, thus useless.

 

[Ink]

Posted it 2.5 years ago and now probably a dead project.