Mozilla on July 21 indicated that its team in Taiwan continues to play an important role for R&D of Firefox OS.
Mozilla COO and Taiwan general manager Gong Li has resigned and set up a new company, recruiting about 30 engineers from the Firefox OS R&D team in the process, almost suspending the R&D operation and arousing concerns from Taiwan-based smartphone supply chain makers.
Mozilla is developing Firefox OS 2.5 and plans to launch in November 2015. Mozilla will keep updating Firefox OS by launching a new version every half year.
In order to promote Firefox OS, Mozilla is seeking cooperation with mobile telecom carriers and smartphone vendors to add Firefox OS to Android smartphones and will extend Firefox OS from smartphones to other smart devices.
Article translated by Adam Hwang
