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		MatthewPhillips on July 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Boot to Gecko: building a complete, standalone ope... Looks like they are going to fork Android and have it boot straight to Firefox[1]. EDIT: Correction, they're using Android for the drivers only.[2] It will not boot to the java APIs, so it won't be the Android Firefox app. [1] https://market.android.com/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox [2]https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.platform/d...

tedmielczarek on July 25, 2011 [–]

The "Android Firefox app" is just Gecko, a bunch of C++ code rendering to an Android widget. That's like calling the Windows version the "Windows Firefox app".

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