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Mozilla Partners Up With LG To Combat Apple and Google

Posted by Soulskill on from the competition-is-a-good-thing dept.

MrSeb writes "At Mobile World Congress, which begins in three days, Mozilla will finally take the wraps off the Mozilla Marketplace and allow developers to submit their open web technology (HTML5, JavaScript, CSS) apps. While the Marketplace will play an important role in keeping Firefox in step with Chrome, these apps will actually play a far more important role: Boot to Gecko (B2G), Mozilla's upcoming smartphone and tablet OS, will also use the Marketplace. For B2G to succeed it must have apps, and to create apps you need developers. That's why, at MWC, according to a source close to the matter, Mozilla will also be announcing that it has partnered up with LG to make a developer-oriented B2G-powered mobile device. Even more interestingly, Brendan Eich, Mozilla's Chief Technology Officer, says that it will unveil other partners at MWC as well — probably carriers, who are eager to use the open B2G and its Marketplace to escape the huge control that Apple and Google currently exert in the smartphone space."

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  1. Re:Barcode scanner app by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mozilla is building a WebAPI open standard along with B2G so you can access hardware from html / javascript. Check this out http://arewemobileyet.com/

  2. Re:too bad i switched to chrome....... by jank1887 · · Score: 4, Informative

    same here, but then I switched back sometime around FF10. Much happier with it than back in the 3.x days. I now go back and forth without much concern.

  3. Re:Barcode scanner app by jesser · · Score: 4, Informative

    Device APIs are a key part of the B2G effort. Mozilla is making those APIs and getting them standardized.

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    The shareholder is always right.
  4. Re:Barcode scanner app by ciderbrew · · Score: 3, Informative

    :( Fair point well made. Here -> Canary Wharf, London - Fullers

  5. Re:too bad i switched to chrome....... by LaRainette · · Score: 4, Informative

    When did you last use FF ? v3.5 ?

      I use both right now, on win7, Linux Mint and CrunchBang. My FF always has 20-30 tabs opened, it's my main browser, I only use Chrome when have no browser opened and I don't want to wait for FF to start with my 30 opened tabs.

      Based on my experience, FF 10 isn't bloated at all. It's as fast as Chrome and has way more useful plugins.

      On an unrelated note I trust mozilla a gazillion times more than I trust google.