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i4blux | 7 years ago

Firefox OS was doomed to fail. They created an operating system which used the slowest rendering and JS engine there was and put it in the worst hardware they could find.

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icebraining|7 years ago

These phones run on the same rendering and JS engine...

"KaiOS apps are based on web technologies–HTML, CSS, and JavaScript–and are run by Gecko runtime."

https://developer.kaiostech.com/

mr_toad|7 years ago

Gecko is the rendering engine. The JS engine is called SpiderMonkey.

0815test|7 years ago

Except that Firefox is phasing out Gecko and replacing it with Servo (we're not yet there but some components have been replaced already - this is what the Firefox Quantum thing was all about). So this KaiOS thing is basically picking up an abandoned project...