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0 pointsszatkus3mo ago0 comments

The main problem with Firefox OS was that it was really slow. At the same time it was targeting budget phones.

But on the other hand progress was quite good. Back in the days I was maintaining unofficial images for Alcatel Fire. Each version was a little bit faster, but you really can't do much when the whole OS is a browser running on a device with with 256MB of RAM and a single core CPU.

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_heimdall3mo ago

Wasn't webOS effectively an OS built on web standards and effectively just a browser engine?

The Pre had 256MB and something like a 600mHZ processor. While it was no speed demon, I was always impressed with the animations and multitasking they pulled off with it.

mikestorrent3mo ago

People forget we used the web on 100mHz 486s with maybe 16MB of RAM and sites like Slashdot were plenty usable.

_heimdall3mo ago

Granted sites like Slashdot didn't used react server components.

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0 pointsszatkus3mo ago0 comments

The main problem with Firefox OS was that it was really slow. At the same time it was targeting budget phones.

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_heimdall3mo ago

Wasn't webOS effectively an OS built on web standards and effectively just a browser engine?

The Pre had 256MB and something like a 600mHZ processor. While it was no speed demon, I was always impressed with the animations and multitasking they pulled off with it.

mikestorrent3mo ago

People forget we used the web on 100mHz 486s with maybe 16MB of RAM and sites like Slashdot were plenty usable.

_heimdall3mo ago

Granted sites like Slashdot didn't used react server components.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse