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Before that it was a mobile OS that failed to gain traction.
by janice1999 3y ago
Before that it was a mobile OS that failed to gain traction.
- pas 3y agoat least boot2gecko made 1000x more sense than a painfully vague "focus on AI"
- 1attice 3y agoI love FF and T-bird hard, but I have this mental image of a huddle full of brilliant, 20-year-plus systems engineers sitting in a room staring at a whiteboard with 'AI?' in the middle of it. "Ok, everybody popcorn up some ideas. Don't be shy." [one of them opens a laptop and begins fiddling with a flame graph]
- reducesuffering 3y agoSo Bighead and Gavin Belson? https://youtu.be/CFsRif1wVGs?si=5939fsuM2AigbB_9 https://youtu.be/CFsRif1wVGs?si=5939fsuM2AigbB_9
- lupusreal 3y agoAt least that was plausibly related to browser development, vis-à-vis ChromeOS. With "AI services" they're totally dropping the pretext of caring about Firefox.
- jeroenhd 3y agoFirefoxOS may have died, but its fork KaiOS did quite well, shipping on tens of millions of cheap phones in developing countries. I think these countries are moving to Android/iOS as they get wealthier, but the legacy of FirefoxOS was quite successful. It's just that Mozilla never got much out of it.