As a person who runs (as my main phone) a FirefoxOS (2.5) on a LG Nexus 5, I'd like to note that those who would like to try out FFOS on a device (maybe an old left over one, if you're not sure), are welcome to! The water's nice and warm, just dive right in :). The build and flash documentation is nice and relatively easy to follow, given the technical level of the goal that you're trying to accomplish (building a mobile OS and flashing a phone).<p>I'd love it if the page that was linked noted more ways to contribute to the community -- at present, it seems like there are two (but should be more):<p>- Port FFOS (I'm actually doing this on one phone I had laying around, and it's actually pretty difficult because I am new to porting mobile android-based OSes)<p>- Try FFOS on android<p>What about app reviews? last I checked, that was also a great way to contribute to the platform (assuming they're still done by volunteers). Also, contributing code, mashing bugs (a link to the bugtracker), i18n help all seem like things people could do to help (when I last built from master, some translations were still lacking)
Tried the homescreen replacement for Android. It was not good, at all. The jank was impressively terrible and the interface was fairly broken. Dunno why anyone put the time into making an Android adaptation of something so totally incomplete.<p>I guess this might work someday, but I honestly don't understand the point of making an interface out of just HTML and CSS. The performance is truly awful, and will never get better until the models that govern those technologies are refined. It's impossible to optimize CSS, for example. (Although Javascript is definitely getting better, it's still not "native" speed either.)<p>I hope some rethinking comes to this project.
I tried the Firefox OS Android app on my Nexus 7 (2012). I don't know if tablet form-factors are a target but if it is, the icon sizes need some rework.<p>My Nexus 7 has a 7" screen and on it, the home screen icons are incredibly huge: at least 2-3 times the diameter of the standard Android App icons and look really out of place on my screen.