Boot2Gecko now known as Firefox OS

Submitted by Dave Won. on Mon, 07/02/2012

Mozilla has officially changed the name of its Open source Mobile Operating system project Boot2gecko to Firefox OS. This is a great move giving it a name who people know and love.

The official release with the Firefox branding is slated for 2013 as the OS is still under development. Cell provider Sprint and phone manufacture ZTE (ZTE is now the 4th largest handset manufacture in the world) are going to be releasing some of the first devices that will be running that will be running the elusive OS that will be giving iOS and Android a challenge.

The Firefox OS is a Linux based OS that will primarily be running HTML5 applications. The OS will rely strongly on a data connection as applications will be streamed live.