Introduction
Mozilla has stopped all commercial development of Firefox OS, including for TVs. Firefox OS is dead The writing was on the wall and in our review of Panasonic DX900 we called Firefox OS a dead end. Not because it is a bad TV platform – on the contrary it is very user-friendly – but because it had almost no support from the developer community. See full list on developer.mozilla.org. From your Fire TV or Fire TV Stick On the Fire TV home screen, select the search icon in the upper left, and search for 'Firefox'. Or press and hold the microphone key on your voice-enabled remote and say “Firefox”. Select “Firefox for Fire TV” from the search results. The result is the loss of Firefox TV branding entirely in favor of Panasonic's own ‘My Home Screen 2.0’, which was previously co-developed with Mozilla. The OS features in the company’s mid to. Kaufen: - Panasonic ended the development of FireFox OS TV a few month ago but since it is open Source, Panasonic is going on on their own. The 'My home scr.
The approach to designing Firefox OS for Television is fundamentally different from phones or tablets. It requires rethinking of how experiences are structured and how to fulfill the needs of a wide range of uses. Firefox OS for Television was designed not only to simplify the UI, but also to optimize interaction, and to help users get the content they want immediately. Below is the detailed information about the concept of our visual and motion designs.
User Interface Design
Responsive
The controls are designed in code (SVG) and will scale to any screen size without the need for new bitmap graphics. The UI is responsive, it works across devices of all shapes and sizes, from small screen watches to giant screen TVs. The UI components are created in SVG by using simple flat circles. We minimized the use of gradients and reduced shadows as much as possible, but made sure that the controls can be identified distinctly.
Style
Why a circle? We chose to use the circular shape of our Firefox logo as a source of inspiration. Circles have free movement (they naturally roll), shading and lines can enhance this sense of movement within the circle. Circles are warm, humane, comforting and natural. Their movement suggest energy and power. Their completeness suggests infinity, unity, and harmony. You’ll see the circle used throughout the designs of the components, especially in the animations.
Customizable
By changing a color, shape or style of an animation, the controls can be customized to suit any brand need. All controls are all well designed and created as CSS components allowing for effortless customization.
Design in Animations
Groundwork
A great way to make your animations move in a more lifelike manner is to vary the rate at which the object moves. Animation should imitate the world that we live in. So, it’s important to ensure that the pace of movements within your animations, making sure they reflect the real world.
Motion easing will create a more natural look when applied to positions, rotations, deformations, or scale. This will add acceleration and deceleration to the motion, and can make the experience much more playful and delightful.
Responsive
Motion should be responsive and intuitive. It should react in a way that reassures the user, rather than surprises or confuses them. The reaction of the UI, to a users actions, should be corresponding and comprehensible.
Personality
The most obvious principle is that any motion or animation should be of the highest standard possible. We animated and applied liquid motion to the main launchers (TV, Apps, Devices, and Dashboard) resulting in motion as the user selects each one of them. To users, this bespoke motion is truly delightful allowing for further engagement.
Orientation
Motion should help ease the user through the experience. It should establish the “physical space” of the UI by the way objects appear on and off the screen, or establish the user’s focus. It should aid the flow of actions, giving clear guidance through the navigation model. Here in our TV home design, we used scaled motion to guide the users through which objects are selected, and keep the user orientated within the interaction path.
Less is more
Subtlety is key when designing the motion to UI. Motion should be used to help the user stay focused, therefore restraint is needed as the design is used as an accent to the interaction design and should not dominate the experience.
For more information and guides about Firefox OS TV, please refer to the session TVs and connected devices and find other links for relevant articles below.
I hope you enjoyed this post about how we designed Firefox OS TV. If you have any feedback or ideas to help Firefox OS Design Team improve ourselves, please leave a comment.
─ By Scott Wu, Firefox OS UX designer
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Since spring 2015, all of Panasonic’s TVs have been powered by Firefox OS that provides access to Netflix, YouTube and other services via apps. But this is the end. Mozilla has stopped all commercial development of Firefox OS, including for TVs.Firefox OS is dead
The writing was on the wall and in our review of Panasonic DX900 we called Firefox OS a dead end. Not because it is a bad TV platform – on the contrary it is very user-friendly – but because it had almost no support from the developer community. Today, operating systems rise and fall with developers’ support.And now it is official: Firefox OS is dead.
- ”In the spring and summer of 2016 the Connected Devices team dug deeper into opportunities for Firefox OS. They concluded that Firefox OS TV was a project to be run by our commercial partner and not a project to be led by Mozilla,” Mozilla wrote in a blog post.
What now Panasonic?
The only TV manufacturer to use Firefox OS is Panasonic. The Japanese company now has two options:- Starting from 2017, Panasonic could team up with a new partner, for example Google’s Android TV.
- Panasonic could continue work on Firefox OS, under a new name, in-house. Mozilla will release the code as open source.
FlatpanelsHD has contacted Panasonic to ask them about the future but has not received a reply. While option 2 cannot be excluded, one has to remember that Panasonic chose Mozilla as a partner after having trying and failed to develop an in-house TV platform.
Firefox OS was developed by Mozilla, which is best known for the Firefox web browser. Work started in 2012 and the company had grand plans for Firefox OS, which is based on a web browser core, for the mobile space. Those plans were abandoned in late 2015 but Mozilla assured everyone that it would continue development on Firefox OS for TVs. Now, about half a year later, the company has also pulled the power cord on TVs. The code will be releases as open source.
Version 2.6 to be the last
Earlier this month, Panasonic told FlatpanelsHD that a new version 2.6 of Firefox OS is still planned. Mozilla confirms that version 2.6 will be the last release. However, with the two main new features being 'web apps' and 'mobile-to-TV' (a Chromecast-like feature) it seems largely irrelevant. Neither of these two features can evolve without developer support.- “We realize that these decisions are painful for those of us who had high hopes and dreams and work tied up in Firefox OS,” said Ari Jaaksi and David Bryant from Mozilla.
Goodbye Firefox OS. We hardly knew ya’.
Update 30-9-2016: We have received the following official statement from Panasonic:
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Opdatering 30.9.2016 kl. 12.49: Vi har modtaget fřlgende officielle udmelding fra Panasonic:'In order to deliver the very best Smart TV experience to our consumers, Panasonic has for the past few years combined our proprietary technology with open source technology. To this end from 2015 we have shipped Firefox OS in our TVs in order to give our users a simpler, easily usable User Interface.
It is our intention to continue to build on this platform by integrating the assets we have developed including Firefox OS and adopting evolving open source technologies. By this we develop a superior, next generation Panasonic Smart TV.
There is no change for customers who already have a Panasonic Smart TV powered by Firefox, who can continue to enjoy a great Smart TV experience'