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Why We Are Here => Hardware & Technology => Topic started by: littleman on September 10, 2012, 09:28:19 PM
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Mozilla-shows-off-Firefox-OS-1703503.html
Looks like it has potential. A portable device OS that's completely open source and not controlled by an internet colossal would be a very good thing.
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I agree. But.
I can't see it doing that well except amongst geeks. Look at Open Office. A really good product. Widely used? Nope.
Look at GimP. Another great product even compared to Adobe's overpriced software. Widely used? Nope.
I love the idea. Really, I do. But I just see it as a niche thing. Businesses are terrified of something that is free, no matter *how* good it is.
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And then there's FF, which is widely used. Although its numbers are shrinking. I could see a derivative of FFOS taking off in Asia as a basic F-U to American patents.
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This could be interesting, but it really needs something to set it apart from android. I didn't see much to do that in the demo. However, that may change as it develops.
The Ubuntu system could be interesting too.
However, when it comes to mobile I still think it is the marketing money which drives the sales. Sadly, I think that will mean that FF won't get a look in among the cool kids compared the fat cat bully boys.
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FireFox the browser is getting so bad that I'm on the verge of switching to something else. It hawks so much memory and just eats up the computer. Slow pos.
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Take a look at this Rumbas - http://browsermemory.com/
I use it and it does help a bit, albeit not totally.
Wish Firefox would just sort it out. I tried to use opera but I kept coming back to firefox for one reason or another.
I have heard IE10 is the bee's knees, but then that was coming from a MS worshipper
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Opera is the browser I keep coming back to and using long term, specially on Linux where there are not too many full featured browsers, but also on OS X and Win 7 too.
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FireFox the browser is getting so bad that I'm on the verge of switching to something else. It hawks so much memory and just eats up the computer. Slow pos.
Agreed - and that Mozilla feel like they are constantly crapping on the same webmasters who evangelised it.
Opera is the browser I keep coming back to and using long term, specially on Linux where there are not too many full featured browsers, but also on OS X and Win 7 too.
Firefox looks like an Opera clone now.
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Firefox leads by the number of plugins developed for I - though lately Chrome gets quite a lot of action as well. My personal choice so far stays FF but of course that's just one of 5 browsers on my machine, though main one
As for the OS... Mwahahaha ;D me a proud Mac owner