Updated 1:49 p.m. ET, Tuesday, July 17
Mozilla has a bold plan to outfox the major players in the increasingly competitive mobile software space. The company, best known for its Firefox web browser, announced at the start of July that it would be releasing its own mobile device operating system, Firefox OS, on smartphones in Brazil beginning in “early 2013.“At the time, Mozilla explained it would be partnering with a variety of device and chip manufacturing companies to produce smartphones running Firefox OS and that the entire project was an evolution of Mozilla’s stated “goal of building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web,” announced back in July 2011 under the name “Boot to Gecko,” a reference to Mozilla’s Gecko layout engine, which powers the Firefox browser.
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