Tristan Nitot, Principal Mozilla Evangelist and Mozilla Europe founder explains why FirefoxOS (Mozilla's mobile platform) and why Web browsers matter when it comes to freedom and innovation.

2. FIREFOX OS @ FOSDEM
Tristan Nitot
Principal Mozilla Evangelist, Mozilla Europe Founder
tnitot@mozilla.com - twitter: @nitot

3. THE END OF THE WEB BROWSER?

4. WHAT WOULD WE LOSE?
• Generative nature of the Web - everybody can
participate, no need to ask for permission
• customization of the experience - Add-ons,
Greasemonkey, User-CSS
• The non-commercial part of the Web - what
makes the Web different from TV

5. FUTURE IS MOBILE

6. HOW PEOPLE EXPERIENCE THE INTERNET

7. HOW PEOPLE EXPERIENCE THE INTERNET

8. HOW THE WEB CAN
REMAIN RELEVANT IN A
MOBILE WORLD?

9. HOW CAN MOZILLA PURSUE
ITS MISSION
IN A MOBILE WORLD?

10. 1 - KEEP MAKING FIREFOX FOR
DESKTOP AWESOME

11. 2 - KEEP MAKING FIREFOX FOR
ANDROID AWESOME

12. COMPETING ON MOBILE IS
HARD, ESPECIALLY WITH THE
PLATFORM OWNER

13. "SAFARI ALMOST FOUR
(ON IOS)
TIMES FASTER THAN CHROME
IN JAVASCRIPT"
- ARSTECHNICA

14. MOBILE PLATFORMS ARE
PROPRIETARY

15. HTML5: THE WEB IS THE PLATFORM
One open technology to bind them all

16. 3 - MAKE FIREFOX OS

17. AN OPEN MOBILE PLATFORM
Firefox OS
Complete, standalone
operating system for the
open Web, built entirely
using HTML5 & standard
Web APIs

18. EVERYTHING IS A WEB PAGE!
Variations around the Variations around
Home screen the incoming call screen

19. FIREFOX OS: HOW AN OPEN WEB PHONE
CONNECTS HTML5 TO HARDWARE
Existing Platforms
Firefox OS
}
(smartphones only)
Web Browser/
Platform
Native API- Web-based User
Experience/Web
based UI Content
Significantly
Web Engine/ smaller stack:
APIs Standard Device
APIs Scales from
high-end
Kernel feature phones
(e.g. Android, iOS, Kernel
Win7, etc.) to high-end
smartphones
Device
(phone, tablet, Device
desktop)

20. MARKETPLACE: THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
Content owners can use the
Firefox Marketplace to
enhance discoverability
and make monetization
easier.
They can also sell directly
(going through the
marketplace is optional)
FIREFOX
MARKETPLACE

21. THE WEB IS THE
(MOBILE) PLATFORM

22. JUL 2012: ANNOUNCE
PARTNERS
• Chipset : Qualcomm
• Hardware : ZTE & TCL
• Carriers : Deutsche Telekom,
Etisalat, Smart, Sprint, Telecom
Italia, Telefonica & Telenor

23. JAN 15, 2013: FIREFOX 1.0
REACHED

24. JAN 23, 2013: FIREFOX OS DEVELOPER
PHONES ANNOUNCED REACHED

25. JAN 26, 2013: FIREFOX OS
APPDAYS IN 25 CITIES

26. FEB 24-28: MOBILE WORLD
CONGRESS, BARCELONA

27. HOW TO HELP
• Attend the Firefox OS talks at Fosdem, engage
with Mozilla developers!
• Contribute to Mozilla:
• http://www.mozilla.org/contribute
• Build Mobile Web Apps:
• https://marketplace.firefox.com/

28. THANK YOU!
@nitot