20 days ago Just in the CB issued a "Mozilla Firefox OS 1.4 and 1.5" release [1], and last night in Mozilla's FTP found the Firefox OS 2.0 emulator preview version of the plugin, interested in the installation experience.
It is understandable that the Firefox OS 1.5 simulator can be released in such a short time after the release of the 2.0 simulator. The fact is that Mozilla has given up the 1.x version after 1.4 and put it into the development of Firefox OS 2.0 based on code Haida and a new user interface. Firefox OS 2.0 has a significant evolution over the 1.x version in function, interface, and performance.
The network has exposed the new Firefox OS user interface sample, the Firefox OS on the github of the main source branch is also 2.0,geeksphone mobile phone users by swiping into the official supply of the latest nightly version of the firmware found already is the Firefox OS 2.0, user feedback to compile the latest Firefox OS is already 2.0, this shows that the development of Firefox OS 2.0 has entered the real phase.
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In any 1.x version of the simulator we can not find any support for Simplified Chinese, and in 2.0 finally have Simplified Chinese. Firefox OS 2.0 will be released some time this summer, according to Firefox OS Roadmap.
two major features of the Firefox OS simulator :
First, in the current mainland users to start the Firefox OS mobile phone is very difficult to provide an opportunity to experience the Firefox OS on the computer side, because it is just a plug-in browser Firefox, and installation is very simple, so each Firefox users can easily get started, Interested can browse the text after the tutorial [2].
Second, very good application development and debugging tools, in fact, is the main function of the Firefox OS simulator. With its application developers can easily push their applications to the simulator, and with the Firefox browser developer Tools Seamless combination of the application debug, we know that the Firefox browser because of the built-in and scalable some very powerful developer tools to be loved by developers, So the Firefox OS simulator based on Firefox is really for Web application development, and also provides a tutorial for developers on the use of the Firefox OS emulator [3].
download Install Firefox OS Simulator 2.0:
Set up in the Firefox browser directly to open the appropriate link can be directly installed: Windows, Mac OS x, Linux (x86_64,i686).
Firefox OS Simulator Reference :
[1]http://www.cnbeta.com/articles/281845.htm
[2]http://www.mozfan.com/thread-4802-1-1.html
[3]https://developer.mozilla.org/zh-cn/docs/tools-840092-dup/firefox_os
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