Where Is Firefox OS? 288
adeelarshad82 writes "Microsoft's very simple yet graceful concept raises a very big question. The way Microsoft is planning out Windows 8, developers will be able to write one HTML 5 app which will run across every Windows 8 form factor, from desktops to laptops, to ARM netbooks and tablets. Given the concept, if you remove the operating system — or at least make it transparent enough that the browser becomes the platform — then suddenly every piece of software works across every piece of hardware which raises the question that why Mozilla hasn't considered a Firefox OS?"
Re:Because its a stupid idea (Score:5, Funny)
Once you've made the browser so big that it encompasses all possible generic operating system needs, it is too bloated and someone else makes a smaller faster better browser.
Now there's a thought.. Mozilla can wait until everyone else gets all bloated, then they can launch a new project to create a fast, lightweight standalone browser without all the bloat of their current offering.
My poor hardware budget... (Score:2, Funny)
why Mozilla hasn't considered a Firefox OS?
I heard you like buying paying for terabytes of RAM, so I stuck a firefox in your firefox so you can bloat while you bloat...
Re:Q: Why hasn't Mozilla considered a Firefox OS? (Score:4, Funny)
"Firefox would be a great operating system, if only it had a decent web browser"
Re:Q: Why hasn't Mozilla considered a Firefox OS? (Score:2, Funny)
I always thought that "elegant" and "simple" were nearly synonymous. The reason code isn't elegant is, some people don't understand their tools, others don't understand machines, others don't understand the programs they are trying to write, and yet others are just plain lazy.
I mean, if developers can't even be bothered to go back and remove their comments from the code they've written before releasing the code, that is just plain LAZY!! Why load a 12 MB executable into memory, when removing the cruft would reduce it to 9, or maybe even 6 MB?
And, obviously, if they can't be bothered to remove COMMENTS, then they certainly haven't bothered to monitor memory usage, data flow, or anything else. Memory leaks? Why bother - memory is cheap, right? Besides - everyone runs Windows, and everyone reboots* every morning, noon, and evening - no one is going to leak very much memory in a few hours, right?
*forgot that I finally updated my kernel last week - my uptime isn't anything to brag about right now, lol!
19:05:03 up 8 days, 15:45, 2 users, load average: 2.01, 1.57, 1.47
Re:Q: Why hasn't Mozilla considered a Firefox OS? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Q: Why hasn't Mozilla considered a Firefox OS? (Score:3, Funny)
You mean you don't allocate memory to store your comments as strings?