Although KaiOS turned out to be disappointingly closed and oriented to tracking users and shipping advertising, it was quickly forked in GerdaOS, a custom ROM that promised to bring back some of the openness of Firefox OS to KaiOS devices such as newer Nokias, and kill the intrusive user trackers in the process. The first major commercial adoption of B2G/Firefox OS was seen around 2018 with KaiOS, a widely popular commercial fork of Firefox OS that promised to be a modern OS for inexpensive feature phones. However, in the last months Firefox OS has experienced a similar revival to other projects, such as HP webOS (which became LuneOS) and Nokia's Maemo (now Leste). The first Firefox OS phone (2013) was cute-looking, linuxy, and inexpensive
Except nobody adopted it seriously, and it died in 2016. Clean lines, a lively flat design, and an easy-to-use app development toolkit made it a compelling alternative to Android and iOS. In fact, the idea of booting to a browser and interfacing apps with the kernel directly is rather intuitive, and would not be that much heavier than booting most other modern UIs in the first place.Įven Firefox OS's user interface was very nicely designed, with visible inspiration from HP WebOS and Palm OS. Firefox OS, also known as Boot2Gecko from the "Gecko" rendering engine of Firefox, was a surprisingly clean and smooth experience, and its official deprecation in 2016 was probably more of an adoption issue than a technical problem.
One of the most important open source attempts in this direction was Firefox OS, the alternative to Android created and promoted by Mozilla in the early 2010s. The $25 Mozilla smartphone was an ambitious plan
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