Firefox is a free and open source web browser—the largest one that isn't tied to a corporation. Yet there was a briefly a time when Firefox was also a smartphone operating system. Firefox OS ...

You can come down on one side or the other of how practically big the planned Chrome OS will be. My take is skeptical, and as often happens, my colleague Michael Hickins disagrees. But getting stuck ...

Mozilla's modernized mobile OS is catching up to Apple and Google rivals with improvements necessary to carry Firefox OS beyond its bare-bones roots. Copy-paste and find-my-phone tools patch ...

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.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ewan Spence covers the digital worlds of mobile technology. Going on sale on July 2nd for just 69 Euros is the ZTE Open. One of a ...

Mozilla is planning to add a touch of speed to the release schedule of its mobile OS. From here on in, Firefox OS will get a feature release every three months, Mozilla said on Monday. The previous ...

As Google did to Microsoft, now Mozilla is doing to Google. Well, sort of. The Firefox-maker recently announced that Firefox OS 2.5 is ready as a developer preview. To make it easier for developers ...

Barring any news of a delay, commercial smartphones running Firefox OS should be launched any day now. The first five markets targeted by Mozilla are not your usual suspects, however. Originally, ...

Here’s something which shouldn’t come as a surprise, I like playing around with smartphones. I know, shocking for someone who writes about them. I wouldn’t say I’m addicted, but then addicts rarely ...