Hi jerzra, I see the point of that. I wonder how that decoupling will play with the rocket-bar (I believe the idea is to remove the browser completely and make it ubiquitous or something like that). I could be misunderstanding what the plans and timelines are.
On 2014-04-15, 5:49 PM, jezra wrote: > I would say that step 1 is to uncouple the single most important > application from the OS and put it in the market place so that users > aren't beholden to OEMs for updates to the browser. > > There is already a ticket for this. > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=973372 > > > On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 10:10:12 -0400 > "Armen Zambrano G." <arme...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> Hi Max, Adrian, >> I agree that the situation is less than ideal, however, this is not >> what things will be like forever. >> >> I want to point out, that Firefox OS coming out on 2013 was a 1.0 >> release. That means that a lot of sacrifices had to made to hit the >> schedule. The mobile industry is very demanding specifically with >> schedules. There's a saying in software development which is "you have >> to get to 1.0 to even be able to ship a 2.0". >> >> It is very unfortunate that early adopters have to face these >> difficulties; knowing that you're supporting us and trusting something >> very dear to you (your phone and personal time if not more than that). >> >> As you can probably imagine, dealing with EOMs is not easy. The mobile >> industry in general is not easy. It is very cut-throat and don't >> necessarily look towards long-term support. >> >> As far as I know, Mozilla is here to change things for the sake of the >> public. There is a limit on how much we can influence the industry, >> however, we have already seen a lot of changes which eventually will >> percolate to the end-users (e.g. EOMs working in "open" issues rather >> than behind closed doors or contributing code to an open source >> initiative). >> >> I don't know how to help you in this specific issue, however, look for >> the "Let's fix updates" thread in this mailing thread. I assume good >> stuff will come out of it. >> >> Thank you for supporting the open web and I hope that a way to help >> you can come out of all the conversations. >> >> sincerely yours, >> Armen >> >> On 2014-04-14, 7:46 AM, maxrottenkol...@googlemail.com wrote: >>> I can only wholeheartedly agree with adrian on this. >>> >>> What i expected from fxos was one thing primarily: a good web >>> browser. >>> >>> Instead i get this excuse of a firefox that: >>> * can not be upgraded >>> * can not be configured >>> * does not run adblock >>> * crashes on 80% of all websites >>> >>> i get weekly updates for marketplace and wikipedia. I couldnt care >>> less. >>> >> >> > -- Zambrano Gasparnian, Armen (armenzg) Mozilla Senior Release Engineer https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/armenzg/ http://armenzg.blogspot.ca _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
