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Where Is Firefox OS?
adeelarshad82 writes "Microsoft's very simple yet graceful concept raises a very big question. The way Microsoft is planning out Windows 8, developers will be able to write one HTML 5 app which will run across every Windows 8 form factor, from desktops to laptops, to ARM netbooks and tablets. Given the concept, if you remove the operating system — or at least make it transparent enough that the browser becomes the platform — then suddenly every piece of software works across every piece of hardware which raises the question that why Mozilla hasn't considered a Firefox OS?"
Once you've made the browser so big that it encompasses all possible generic operating system needs, it is too bloated and someone else makes a smaller faster better browser.
Now there's a thought.. Mozilla can wait until everyone else gets all bloated, then they can launch a new project to create a fast, lightweight standalone browser without all the bloat of their current offering.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
"Firefox would be a great operating system, if only it had a decent web browser"
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
No, he's not. I've seen his code.
You mean you don't allocate memory to store your comments as strings?