Firefox OS on the ZTE Open [LWN.net]

Firefox OS on the ZTE Open

Posted Sep 7, 2013 13:18 UTC (Sat) by roc (subscriber, #30627)
In reply to: Firefox OS on the ZTE Open by liam
Parent article: Firefox OS on the ZTE Open

FirefoxOS can run Web apps and a good Web browser on phones that can't possibly run Chrome on Android (and the Android "stock browser" is rubbish).

For Web browsing and running Web apps, running both Android's frameworks and a Web browser is a lot of overhead on low-end phones.

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Firefox OS on the ZTE Open

Posted Sep 9, 2013 14:38 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

But users don't care about HTML5 and for them native apps (and there are way more native Android apps then good HTML5 apps) are better: faster, less battery-hungry, etc.

In a world where there are millions of HTML5 applications and few Android ones FirefoxOS will make sense, but this is not our world right now.

Firefox OS on the ZTE Open

Posted Sep 9, 2013 22:25 UTC (Mon) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]

There are a very large number of Web sites that don't have an equivalent Android app.

It remains to be seen whether the average "native Android app" (I can't tell whether you mean NDK apps or Dalvik apps) is "faster, less battery-hungry, etc" than the average FirefoxOS HTML5 app or Web page in the FirefoxOS browser.

Firefox OS on the ZTE Open

Posted Sep 10, 2013 18:17 UTC (Tue) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

For a lot of time facebook's mobile web interface was better, faster, less battery-hungry than and as featureful as its dalvik-application. AND it didn't nag you with notifications all the time.