Firefox OS – What is missing

As noted earlier, I hope that Firefox OS can replace Android on my phone at some point. Mozilla has done some great work in the past month but there is still a lot to be done. Right now the main problems for me are…

  • Hardware support: While Firefox OS is fully open source, neither my old Nexus One nor the Galaxy Nexus can run it in a stable way. At least the Galaxy Nexus has much better hardware than any official Firefox OS phones and even the Nexus One should at least be on par with the ZTE Open.
  • Firefox Sync: This feature is great, I use it sync between my Fedora desktops and phone. Especially sending tabs from one device to another is great. It is totally beyond me how Mozilla could not support this killer feature on Firefox OS.
  • Firefox extensions: Well, I only really need Adblock Plus
  • CardDAV: Another fact that is hard to explain, given Mozilla’s love for open standards is the absence of CardDAV sync. In order to sync contacts you need to use, guess what, Facebook (or Google/Hotmail). Maybe this will make it into a release sooner or later.

Besides those, it would also need solutions for at least news, passwords and file sync to match the functionality I get on Android.

I plan to follow the development of Firefox OS more closely from now on and update this list as features become available or I find other important things that Firefox OS is lacking.

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