I've written a huge amount about Firefox OS (B2G) and how much I feel that the undertaking it required for a company of Mozilla's size, was a mistake. I believe

I've written a huge amount about Firefox OS (B2G) and how much I feel that the undertaking it required for a company of Mozilla's size, was a mistake. I believe in Firefox and the power of Sync and I also believed in Thunderbird, especially the concept of an Android port. Firefox on all platforms is a guest and I can understand wanted to have some firm roots. In one blog post I wrote that I'd have loved to see Mozilla put out a version of Android where they gut it and remove Webkit and replace that with Gecko. Firefox's greatest problem of late is often described as a lack of imagination, but in truth, that's simply a symptom of limited resources. They're unable to induct a steady flow of volunteering coders and it's a shame. It's meaning that features are being neglected and delayed. Take Panorama for example, users should be able to open Panorama and see all their windows on all their devices and open that in the existing viewport (window). The possibilities of Panorama are like something straight out of the future and yet it's been neglected to keep bread and butter features up to date along with implementing what is perceived as the uninspired design. Think about when Mozilla unveiled their plans for the Download Manager, literally a month or two later it was implemented by Safari, while Mozilla still hasn't completed their own idea. And I still think they should work on improving their feed reader, implement it in a way like Brief. I know when Limi came over from Google, he mentioned how little traction RSS has, but sometimes it's worth reaping the marketing on your niche features, rather than simply catering to the mass market and being thought of as just-the-same. In regards to the philosophy behind Firefox OS, it doesn't take a genius to work that the App culture is here to stay for a while at least and that Mobile Web Apps are simply a Eutopian daydream. That can't be changed for now. What can be changed is that Mozilla work hard on making sure people understand the role of the web and the benefit that coding openly can bring. i.e. not using an embedded browser for authentication in your Android apps. Allow users to use Firefox so as they can use their stored passwords. But then, I'm a big believer that the Evangelism Team over as Mozilla needs more resources. The time for Mobile Web Apps will come, I'm sure, but not for now. The alternative is just so much easier from an end user point of view and it would seem that attempting to force the issue isn't helpful from a developers point of view either, ask Facebook. Right now, Firefox OS's only competitors are Chrome OS and WebOS. It'll be interesting to see how each of those three evolve.