Mozilla’s Chrome OS variant will appear mid-2012

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Mozilla’s Chrome OS-variant appears to be expected the middle of next year for end-users. The first test version of the so-called Boot 2 Gecko, which is reportedly not for notebooks meant to be, it should still be available this year.

The ontwikkelaarsversie of Boot 2 Gecko or B2G is still available this year, is in the roadmap for Mozilla’s open-source project. It also shows that the final version of the mobile operating system for end users most likely the middle of next year. Mozilla would be the development of the interface and the apps of the mobile operating system have already been completed.

Unlike Googles Chrome OS would Boot 2 Gecko is not for laptops, but for smartphones and tablets, reports The Verge. So would the operating system works on a Tegra 2 soc. Mozilla released a mockup of the interface was released. The conclusion is that the mobile operating system, but will mainly run on smartphones. Mozilla is not in the direct way of Googles Chrome OS, as initially thought.

Mozilla was already known that it is working on a Chrome OS variant. The mobile operating system will be on an Android kernel to run. Just as Chrome OS will be a lot of applications html5-based. There are apis for phonebook, contacts and a gallery. Mozilla wants to eventually that the browser forms the basis for a fully mobile OS, including applications for calls and sms.