The development community of Mozilla Firefox announced this week that will venture to create its own competitor to Chrome, the web-based operating system created by Google. The goal is to create a system that works for netbooks, smartphones and other devices that are "focused on the web."
The official announcement of the initiative was made Monday afternoon by Andreas Gal, a researcher at the Mozilla Foundation, which proved to be ambitious to say that "to make the web technologies are a better basis for desktops and mobile devices, we have to continue offering products that equal and exceed the capabilities of our competitors. "
And this was the objective of the project, called Boot to Gecko, which would create "a complete and independent operating system for the web." Gal wrote. For those not familiar, is the name of the Gecko rendering engine responsible for running the Firefox browser.
Then Gal exposes the development goals of the new program, which includes APIs to exploit the capabilities of mobile devices like smartphones, bootstrap and application development to "give power to the system."
Those interested, Boot to Gecko - also called B2G - takes his first steps here, still far from its launch.
