Games are a top app category for smartphones, and Mozilla is trying to make them better with a new release of its browser-based operating system, Firefox OS. The nonprofit organization on Thursday ...

A Mozilla reference phone, built with Spreadtrum’s processor, that ultimately will hit the market as a $25 device for customers who don’t have the funds for higher-end phones.Stephen Shankland/CNET ...

For those who aren’t aware, Firefox OS is an operating system created to rival the likes of Android and iOS. The way it approaches this is quite different from its competitors – the entire operating ...

If all you saw was the big news about Mozilla giving up on Firefox OS for phones, you might be surprised to hear that the commercial project was still active. But it was. In fact, Panasonic released a ...

Mozilla has unveiled two Developer Preview smartphones that will act as a vanguard ahead of Firefox OS's consumer release later this year. The phones are being developed by Geeksphone -- a Spanish ...

Mozilla’s Firefox OS is an operating system designed around the same technology used in the Firefox web browser. It’s based on open source software and designed to make it easy for anyone to create ...

In 2003, Mozilla liberated Earth's web users from Internet Explorer with the Firefox browser. A decade later, it wants to do it again -- for smartphones -- with Firefox OS. But there's a twist in the ...

Mozilla confirmed Tuesday that it was halting development on Firefox OS in its current incarnation, putting an end to more than four years of work building a browser-based, smartphone operating system ...

Mozilla has announced on its blog the release of Firefox OS Simulator version 1.0, and the introduction of per-window private browsing in the Firefox Nightly channel. As we previously detailed, the ...

An earlier Linux-based open-source operating system from the Mozilla project. Firefox OS ran HTML5-based Web applications and came with a set of default apps that were part of its Gaia user interface.

The Mozilla Foundation (in partnership with GeeksPhone) has just revealed that the first “Developer Preview” phones will be shipping with the new, Open Source, “Firefox OS” very, very shortly – ...