nsane.forums Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Mozilla marches toward Firefox OS's release in 2013 with a new browser-based simulator designed to help app developers. Firefox OS You can now get a taste of Firefox OS straight from your desktop browser, thanks to a new Firefox add-on called r2d2b2g that bakes a Firefox OS simulator right into your desktop browser. Mozilla wrote in its blog post announcing the simulator add-on that the tool has two complementary goals for helping developers. Currently at version 0.7, the company hopes that by version 1.0 the add-on will be stable enough to let developers easily create apps for the new OS. The second goal for the add-on is that it frees developers from having a device to install a pre-release build of Firefox OS. Given that the Mozilla has said that the initial target audience of Firefox OS will be emerging markets, this could be a boon for developers who may have limited access to multiple mobile devices. It works via the B2G desktop client, which can't emulate device hardware but does have several non-desktop APIs enabled. Although Mozilla says that it's not having problems getting developers interested, it's hard to imagine that it's not an uphill struggle as Firefox OS joins a crowded field of mobile operating systems. While Symbian is on its way out, and iOS and Android get the most attention from developers, the new Windows Phone 8 and the upcoming BlackBerry 10 will also be clamoring for developer attentions. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted November 16, 2012 Administrator Share Posted November 16, 2012 Looks good. :) Is a little buggy of course. But it's still Alpha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowx Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Nice one :showoff: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nIGHT Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 So many OS for phones/tablets emerged, the obsolete OS or less popular OS has its code been shared over the net.Hoping that developers once again take a shot at their platform, but their own greed once had been an obstacle for their OS popularity.As most of its kernels, libraries and rom codes are being kept away from the developers/public,the devices that depend on these only have a limited life span and usability.This forces the consumer to replace their devices often and more money is spent.It may be profitable for them to have this kind of strategy to earn profits at an early stage but as we learn from the old pc erawhere OEM manufactures all parts of their product has been the cause of their downfall.You may argue that there should be no comparison to pc/laptop and phone/tabletbut as I have seen the gap are closing between the pc/laptop and phone/tablet worlds.The tablet is a good example of a product that brought these two worlds in parallel with the other.The Tablets used to run on Windows OS now runs on android.We may have android, and now Firefox os, but my concern is that does these OSes really serve for usability and portability like what we have in PC's/laptops?We have CyanoMod, an android community that helps consumers upgrades their phone/tablets tothe latest version of android, but they are having a hard time finding a way as the manufacturers deprived the consumerof the rom codes that they need to install to the latest android os.So what will Firefox os does that differs from the android os if the same manufacturers still not disclosed these rom codes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batu69 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 The developer Myk, noted that the Windows version of B2G Desktop currently crashes on start-up due to bug 795484. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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