The latest company said to be entering the low cost smartphone market is Mozilla. You probably know them first most of all for their Firefox internet browser. However, they have recently shown the world a £15 smartphone which they developed along with Chinese chip maker Spreadtrum. The cheap phone clearly isn’t going to be as powerful or as versatile as more expensive...
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The developers behind Mozilla’s newest Firefox browser, Firefox 6, received a cupcake from their rivals as a token of appreciation. Director of Engineering at Mozilla, Jonathan Nightingale, said that the cake, which was given by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team, arrived on the day that the Firefox 6 was launched earlier this month. “Every time Mozilla...
Mozilla is now making ways to protect its browser’s users from programs that install Firefox add-ons without their permission, citing a number of reasons, which include security concerns and the developer’s desire to make users have the ultimate control over installed add-ons. These software-bundled add-ons have been a big problem for the browser’s users,...
Mozilla has revealed its plans to turn the Gecko engine into an open source operating system that is aimed to work on smartphones and tablets. The new project is called Boot to Gecko (B2G), and its source code will be released to users “in real time,” wrote Mozilla researcher andreas Gal in a forum post. Gecko is the engine that powers the Firefox web browser...