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That makes me wonder, how much code do Firefox OS and Firefox Browser have in common? Was just thinking if some of the advances of the mobile OS world could ben
by piyush_soni 13y ago
That makes me wonder, how much code do Firefox OS and Firefox Browser have in common? Was just thinking if some of the advances of the mobile OS world could benefit the browser as well :).
- fzzzy 13y agoThey share the same renderer codebase, Gecko. You are correct that advances for the OS benefit the browser, and vice versa.
- kbrosnan 13y agoThe async pan zoom controller (APZ/APZC) is only used on Firefox OS and the former Firefox for Metro. The graphics team wrote something similar for Firefox for Android (JPZC). At some point the plan is to use the APZ in other products. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/APZ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/APZ
- fzzzy 13y agoYes, some specifics about the architecture, such as APZ and multiprocess architecture, are currently Firefox OS only, but this is because of backwards compatibility limitations with Firefox Desktop. Hopefully some day the desktop browser can benefit from these as well.