Tag Archives: FirefoxOS

Flashing Firefox OS onto a Flame with Windows

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Steve

Since being involved in the Mozilla Tablet Contribution Program I’ve seen community members often asked about flashing and building on Windows. This seems to be a something of a FAQ for both the ‘flatfish’ tablet and ‘flame’ reference phone, and … Continue reading →

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Flashing Mozilla Firefox OS Flame Phone on Windows

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Steve

tl;dr the shallow_flash.sh file used to flash Firefox OS nightly builds t to phones such as the Flame now works on Cygwin on Windows. The reason for previous failure and the solution highlight a difference between Linux and Windows. Mozilla’s … Continue reading →

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Help: I bricked my Firefox OS device by enabling the Accessibility Screen Reader!

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Steve

Well you would fiddle, wouldn’t you! šŸ˜‰ The screen reader feature as introduced in Firefox OS 1.3 is experimental – hence it is burried away in the developer settings. If you are not familiar with mobile screen readers you will … Continue reading →

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Success! Firefox OS 1.4 built and running on ZTE Open

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Steve

[Update 2013-04-13 : Trunk, currently 1.5.0.0 also happily builds and runs. Just use “BRANCH=master” with config and build] It’s been a long battle but I have finally got a Firefox OS 1.4 build running on the ZTE Open. I started … Continue reading →

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ZTE Open – upgrading to Firefox OS 1.2

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Steve

[Continued in Success! Firefox OS 1.4 built and running on ZTE Open] I’ve just bought a ZTE Open phone with the intention of exploring Firefox OS, Mozilla’s new HTML-based, fully open mobile operating system. The idea was that at Ā£54 … Continue reading →

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User experiences for low digital literacy and cognitive disabilities with Firefox

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Steve

[Update 2014-02-15] I’ve just discovered Mozilla X-TagĀ that allows extension elements to be created much like XBL. It’s a library rather than native browser implementation (’till W3C Web ComponentsĀ land) and I’m not sure if it allows nesting and inheritance which I … Continue reading →

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