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Android's new floor is 512MB of RAM and that ain't happening in a $25 phone. Firefox OS will run on 128MB, fitting into an entire category of phones that modern
by asadotzler 13y ago
Android's new floor is 512MB of RAM and that ain't happening in a $25 phone. Firefox OS will run on 128MB, fitting into an entire category of phones that modern versions of Android simply cannot.
- hershel 13y agoDoes this use the same code in standard firefox , or a different code base?
- rhelmer 13y agoThe underlying rendering engine (Gecko, FirefoxOS "Boots to Gecko" hence the codename is "B2G") is the same - all apps (including the Browser app on the phone) are written in HTML5/JS/CSS: https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G B2G is different than Desktop Firefox in some ways, for instance it uses multiple processes (this is being worked on for Desktop, it's already in use for plugins for instance) and supports some new APIs to access the hardware on the phone that you'd expect: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI
- Yoric 13y agoGecko is shared. Everything else is different.