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I'm very interested in Firefox OS as we skipped the native app route and just created a web app. Though I am concerned about it's performance. Firefox has alw
by paul9290 14y ago
I'm very interested in Firefox OS as we skipped the native app route and just created a web app.
Though I am concerned about it's performance. Firefox has always been prone to crashing. Thus I wonder is this a brand new piece of software not built on the Mozilla (Firefox) engine?
- Arelius 14y agoFirefoxOS does indeed run on Gecko, the Firefox rendering engine. I'm my experience, most crashes seem to be related to plugins and/or extensions, with that aside, I seem to get pretty comparable crash frequency from Firefox and chrome while developing code that relies on pretty state-of-the-art APIs (WebGL)
- paul9290 14y agoCool .. also i wonder since our app is an audio app of sorts does Firefox OS's audio tag play .mp3s or still stuck with ogg vorbis? We haven't been able to get our app working in regular Firefox because of this - unfortunately!
- fabrice_d 14y agoYes, Firefox OS plays mp3 (and h264 videos), using the hardware decoder from the device.
- doublec 14y agoMP3 and H.264 should play fine on Firefox OS if the device vendor includes hardware support for it. The initial devices do support this as far as I know. Firefox for Android for some devices also supports MP3 and H.264 now. Desktop support is in progress with Windows and Linux being the furthest along.