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The Mozilla Foundation has formalised Firefox OS development, pledging that henceforth new versions will emerge every six months. “To deliver upon this vision we are immediately moving to a development model where we will drive a single open source core of Firefox OS, with major releases every six months, based upon weekly …

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  1. Nate Amsden

    here I got excited

    that they were backtracking on their aggressive firefox browser release schedule, then I realized it was for firefox OS and thought who cares about that..

    (happily running android 4.4.something, android 5.x stay away from my phone please, thanks)

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  2. x 7

    I just wish they'd concentrate on getting one thing - the browser - right and forget about these diversions from the main job

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    1. Dan 55 Silver badge
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      They need to spend time on getting TVs and mobiles right, presumably that brings in more money than giving away a browser. Otherwise we're in for more stuff like Pocket.

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      1. Fatman
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        RE: They need to spend time on getting TVs and mobiles right,

        It looks like that may very well be the case:

        http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/17/breaking_fad_android_tv_and_firefox_os_head_to_head/

        The "money part" being:

        The package is extremely elegant, and couldn’t be more different to Android TV. Indeed, Firefox OS owes more to LG’s webOS than anything else. It’s brilliant and I love it.

        Perhaps, once they have demonstrated that they can build a device OS that performs well, they can fire the existing browser developers, and do a re-think of the Firefox browser. It is sorely needed.

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