Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones

Re:Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smart... by quanticle on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @03:15PM (#10699121)

Not to mention that FirefoxOS wasn't even properly built. I have yet to see (and given today's news, probably will never see) a review of FirefoxOS where the reviewer doesn't mention the OS crashing multiple times.

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Re:Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smart... by mgbmtl on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @09:30PM (#10701516)

I used one as my primary device for 2 years. It worked fine. All I needed was voice, sms, a browser, mail reader and a modem (wifi tethering). I had bought a dev device for $75.

Somewhere in the FF OS 2.x series, an upgrade seriously made the keyboard unusable, and I never knew where to turn for bug trackers / support. I had also tried to make IPv6 work, experimented a bit with the app system.. I'm an average programmer, but I participate in a few large projects.. Firefox has always been a mystery to me, with lots of code names and hard to use bug tracker.

Huge fan of Mozilla otherwise, so hurts a bit to say this.. other than that, it was a functional phone for 2 years.

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Re:Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smart... by niutech on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @08:33PM (#10701290)

My Alcatel with FxOS 2 does not crash at all.

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