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"Sure, if you install OS" is always the wrong answer to "Can you run X?" The answer, apparently, is no, you cannot run Firefox with CromeOS. You can root the

by cube13 14y ago

"Sure, if you install OS" is always the wrong answer to "Can you run X?" The answer, apparently, is no, you cannot run Firefox with CromeOS. You can root the device and install it manually, but I'm not sure how well that works. MS is doing the exact same thing as Apple with iOS Safari and Google with ChromeOS. Not sure why they're evil here, but oh well.

Karunamon 14y ago
>You can root the device and install it manually Some clarification is in order here. Flipping an explicitly provided and documented switch is not "rooting" the device. That carries the connotations of hacking around some form of enforced security getting in your way. And yes you can install it manually without hacking the OS... It's just a form of Linux after all. Go bug Firefox and get them to offer a package that works with the OS if this is too much trouble. Now, is your problem that they don't go out of their way to add compatability for random third party packages on a cloud based OS? You're not the target market, then :P
- cube13 14y ago
  >Now, is your problem that they don't go out of their way to add compatability for random third party packages on a cloud based OS? You're not the target market, then :P I'm not bothered by Google, Apple's, or MS' decision, really. It's just that answering "Can you run Firefox on ChromeOS" with "You can run Firefox on a Chromebook... if you run Ubuntu" just doesn't help anyone that actually wants to run ChromeOS. Also, I'm aware that it's just flipping the switch. It's not, for example, the same steps you need to do to root a Kindle Fire, but it's still the same result: You still need root access to install(and possibly run) Firefox with ChromeOS.
  - Karunamon 14y ago
    I'm not sure what else you would expect though. The browser is the operating system in the case of ChromeOS. (It's even in the name!) It would be like taking a system designed explicitly for Konqueror, for KDE, and all of the specific things that entails, and then turning around and wanting to reconfigure that system to use Dillo or Iceweasel or something else.

by cube13 14y ago

Karunamon 14y ago

>You can root the device and install it manually Some clarification is in order here. Flipping an explicitly provided and documented switch is not "rooting" the device. That carries the connotations of hacking around some form of enforced security getting in your way. And yes you can install it manually without hacking the OS... It's just a form of Linux after all. Go bug Firefox and get them to offer a package that works with the OS if this is too much trouble. Now, is your problem that they don't go out of their way to add compatability for random third party packages on a cloud based OS? You're not the target market, then :P

cube13 14y ago
>Now, is your problem that they don't go out of their way to add compatability for random third party packages on a cloud based OS? You're not the target market, then :P I'm not bothered by Google, Apple's, or MS' decision, really. It's just that answering "Can you run Firefox on ChromeOS" with "You can run Firefox on a Chromebook... if you run Ubuntu" just doesn't help anyone that actually wants to run ChromeOS. Also, I'm aware that it's just flipping the switch. It's not, for example, the same steps you need to do to root a Kindle Fire, but it's still the same result: You still need root access to install(and possibly run) Firefox with ChromeOS.
- Karunamon 14y ago
  I'm not sure what else you would expect though. The browser is the operating system in the case of ChromeOS. (It's even in the name!) It would be like taking a system designed explicitly for Konqueror, for KDE, and all of the specific things that entails, and then turning around and wanting to reconfigure that system to use Dillo or Iceweasel or something else.