Hello, i have been researching on why firefox os failed. I wanted to know why such a product with all these Mozillians behind failed after knowing how all google and other giants are behind individuals privacy.
The main inspiration for asking here is the video i just now watched.
Is Firefox Planning to Restart Firefox OS???
This is quite interesting tbh. If firefox really did it. it will be awesome!
Personally, I’m on e/OS and it’s great.
So, since the alternatives exist, why create competition between good works, we might as well join forces to fight the GAFAs together.
Hi Rishad,
That’s a great question — and one that still comes up often!
Firefox OS was a really bold and innovative idea at the time, but a few factors led to its discontinuation: mainly market timing, lack of app ecosystem support, and the rapid dominance of Android and iOS. The concept of using progressive web apps (PWAs) as the core of an operating system was ahead of its time, but the infrastructure and developer adoption just weren’t there yet.
That said, the spirit of Firefox OS still lives on in several open-source projects — like KaiOS, which evolved from the original Firefox OS codebase. And of course, Mozilla continues to push the open web forward with initiatives that strengthen privacy, PWAs, and open standards.
A truly “universal OS” built around PWAs is still an exciting idea — it just might need the right mix of community, hardware partners, and modern browser capabilities to make it viable today.
What kind of use cases or devices are you envisioning for such an OS?
Eimmaa Rose