Hi folks,

I've been following this forum for a while, I got an N9 couple months ago and consider myself an intermediate level user (experience with Unix/Linux tools, coding skills, etc) and while I love this phone I am also feeling a bit limited by the browser in particular. I have been following other projects to bring current browsers to the N9 (Qml and MeeFox) and have been curious about Firefox OS since it was announced.

Now I know that there is a build of Boot2Gecko (codename for Firefox OS) made by Romaxa that was made last year but it is no longer maintained. Is there a way we can make a new build based on the most current B2G releases? I think this could be a project the community could take on that might lead more results than porting Sailfish OS, but that's pretty much my personal opinion and based only on speculations.

Sorry for the long post, I hope we can discuss this idea and maybe start building something soon.

So, nothing?

225 views and 0 replies. Apparently I'm too delusional.

Probadly not, sailfishos is almost ported via nemomobile.

porting firefoxos means you have to make all drivers working on top of Android stack because if I remember correct Firefox using android drivers as the core.

And for me FirefoxOS is just yet another boring cloud based OS and all this hype around HTML5 apps make me wonder how the heck people are thinking?

Why do people need latest greatest hardware on a phone that only will be used in the cloud? Cloud itself is just slow anyway so there is no point have latest greatest HW when all the time is used for wait for http request/responses....

I see. I was following the thread about the port here a few days ago and read that there were kernel and driver issues as well (and the X11 vs Wayland thing too) but I'll go take a look for any updates.

And as far as I know you'd need nitdroid to use FirefoxOS as you mentioned but although it's not finished it's in a mature enough state that might provide a platform to make porting a nice little experiment at least. I'd do it myself but I don't have the knowledge to build a full OS. Maybe with some guidance and a little help from my friends I would be able to but I'd certainly need to know where to look at. If you have any input on this it would be much appreciated.

Regarding the cloud issue, I agree to an extent: I'm not too fond of them but as far as I understand FirefoxOS keeps it's distance from this by giving support to "packaged" applications as well. You have internal storage and you don't need to have your information in some shady cloud-computing-startup's server that will probably disappear with all your info within the next year.

And the hardware thing is what's most interesting to me, you don't need a giant quad-core phone to fully enjoy a cutting-edge OS.