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Re:Firefox OS's story from a Mozilla insider not working on ... by bgirard on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @05:05PM (#44251793)
> FFOS was doomed because the pixel explosion wasn't just stretching the GPUs of that time

Actually this is the reason that I, at the time working at Mozilla on the rendering team and helping with Firefox OS, proposed will-change. To solved this exact problem. With it, I managed to get the home screen to be perfectly smooth using pure web technologies and no hard coding on low end mobile hardware. Here's the original proposal: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Nov/0414....

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Re:Firefox OS's story from a Mozilla insider not working on ... by alfiedotwtf on Thursday June 12, 2025 @06:08AM (#44255849)
It’s a sad shame that in 2025 I’m using Chrone on my e-ink reader. I still get upset these days at what could have been with Firefox and Mozilla :(
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