Some listings on online stores even still refer to these TVs as “powered by Firefox OS”, despite the official change in branding. But here in the UK you’ll come across these smart TVs when walking into most popular high street electronics retailers like John Lewis, Currys and Argos. They range from the low end 24" LED TX-24FS500B in the UK for £279 ($359) to the very high end 77" OLED TH-77EZ1000H in Hong Kong for HK$139,000 ($17,700).Ī notable exception is the US, where Panasonic recently stopped selling TVs due to difficult market conditions.
There are localised variations being sold running My Home Screen all over the world including in North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Panasonic 65" OLED 4K Smart TV (TX-65FZ802B) running My Home Screen 3.0Īs of 2019 most Panasonic smart TVs are still running this B2G fork. It was started in 2016 with a team of 30 people and has since grown to have offices in France, Germany, Taiwan, India, Brazil, Hong Kong and mainland China in addition to its headquarters in the US. Probably the most notable fork of the B2G source code is KaiOS from KaiOS Technologies. I’ll then explain why I think there’s a strong argument for Mozilla to take a more active role in supporting downstream users of Gecko in future, and even the B2G codebase itself. I will cover KaiOS, Panasonic’s My Home Screen, Servonk, Webian, Astian OS, IceWolf OS and the latest in Mozilla Research & Development.
In this blog post I take a look at the legacy of the B2G project, some of the devices you can buy today running B2G code, and other related efforts which still continue inside and outside Mozilla. In fact since Mozilla moved on from Firefox OS, its derivatives have shipped on an order of magnitude more devices than during its entire time under Mozilla’s leadership and it has gone on to form the basis of the third largest and fastest growing mobile operating system in the world. In the two years or so since Mozilla announced the end of Firefox OS as a Mozilla-run project, the B2G source code has found its way into a surprising number of commercial products. In 2017 I wrote about the story of Firefox OS, from the birth of the B2G (Boot to Gecko) open source software project as an empty GitHub repository in 2011, to shipping as Firefox OS on five million devices worldwide, and then eventually being “transitioned” to the community in 2016.
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