![]() I'm planning to talk to the people of Mozilla about this, and I hope someone can give me some advice. In a few weeks it's FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting) in Brussels (Belgium). Nevertheless a sub 15 second boottime on devices with SSDs should be possible imho. The desktop Firefox for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux will not work on Chrome OS. ![]() When you want this thing to work on pendrives and all kind of machines that's something you are giving up. You can install Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) on models that support Linux. ChromeOS doesn't even check for hardware during boot. Theres no official Firefox app for Chromebooks, but you can install the Android version from the Play Store. The main reason FirefoxOS and ChromeOS boot so fast, is because they apply patches to the kernel. There where efforts made in 2009, but I see no evidence that windowing and compositing works at this stage. For many users who are not well versed with Adobe Photoshop, GIMP acts as a simple and effective tool for image editing without any complexity. As for Gecko, it appears that compositing is not in their. GIMP GIMP is a cross-platform graphics editor that is quite popular on Windows, macOS, and Linux. This can make everything just a little slower. ![]() If you are familiar with more complicated UI’s, moving over to Firefox is easy. Fortunately, there are several ways to install Firefox on the Chromebook. Type in: sudo apt install firefox-esr What are the advantages of using the Firefox browser A simple user interface. So the desktop interface is also written in JS. Download and install Firefox ESR on Chromebook. Gaia is the set of graphical webapps, including the desktop. Getting that out is a big task!įirefox OS has the following structure: Machine > Gonk/Kernel > Gecko > Gaia. Both have their issues and perks.ĬhromiumOS has a great desktop, but it's tangled on every level with build in google service support. There are only 2 options if you don't want to reinvent the wheel: ChromiumOS based or FirefoxOS based. I was first thinking about editing ChromiumOS to enable OwnCloud instead of Drive as the default file storage, but after some digging that seems extremely hard. ![]() But the fact that my 100GB of drive space become paying after 2 years just doesn't make me happy. I love webkit more and love most google products. I'm really thinking about the same thing for a couple of weeks now. ![]()
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