For those who aren’t aware, Firefox OS is an operating system created to rival the likes of Android and iOS. The way it approaches this is quite different from its competitors – the entire operating system in FireFox OS is actually a web application, using FireFox’s own Gecko rendering engine and other technologies.
This makes the platform much more lightweight and scalable than Android or iOS, and because of this, FireFox OS was initially targeted to the large demographics in non-Western countries that normally can’t afford a smartphone at all.
For the past weekend, I ran FireFox OS on my Nexus 5, running developer nightly builds from XDA while using theElementalX Kernel and TWRP Recovery. During this time, I’ve attempted to use FireFox OS as a daily driver over my Nexus 5’s Android 5.1, and from that I have gathered all the information I need to review the operating system.
