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Mozilla Is Working On a Firefox OS-powered Streaming Stick

Posted by Soulskill on from the casting-video-is-finally-arriving dept.

SmartAboutThings writes: Mozilla took the world by surprise when it announced that it was developing a Firefox operating system that would be used for mobile phones, particularly in developing markets. Such devices have already arrived, but they aren't the only targets for the new operating. According to a report from GigaOM, Mozilla is currently working on a secretive project to develop a Chromecast-like media streaming stick powered by Firefox-OS. Mozilla's Christian Heilmann shared a picture of a prototype.

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  1. Re:Why so much stupid shit, Mozilla? by rubycodez · · Score: 3, Insightful

    thunderbird still around and just going to community development model. or you're going to pay mozilla for the expense of keeping it purely in house? no? you've never contributed to anything? then shut the fuck up.

  2. Re:I've got a great idea! by _xeno_ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Firefox already is 64-bit and has been for quite a while.

    Just, not on Windows. I think their excuse was something to do with third party plugins not being 64-bit. (Although I'm pretty sure they have a 32-bit plugin shim that works on Linux and Mac OS X, so whatever.)

    I don't really care, though, since Firefox 30 entirely broke Firefox with the proxy where I work. Now I can't access outside sites at all due to OCSP errors and I can't access internal sites since they removed NTLMv1 support as a "security hole."

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  3. Re:Why so much stupid shit, Mozilla? by grim4593 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How has Thunderbird been killed? It is a stable mature piece of software. There are very few features that they could add to it without making a bloated piece of software.