This I always miss. Time to time just checking the LG store if my beloved Foxy daisy pops up there. It would be nice if she arrives there no later than on 20th FireFox anniversary.
I switched to FF around Christmas 2004 and despites strange looks around me I am still loyal!
And next Xmas maybe new OLED arrives, so this would be for me like Christmas and Easters in 1 day (born on Christmas eve on top of that).
WebOS is linux based - should not be mission impossible or re-inventing whole thing as it has similar roots as android.
Good luck if you decide to make it happen! There will be one more happy neerdo
Hope to see this happen: this will open a huge set of new possibilities, like replacing quite a few native app with more flexible in-brower mozilla versions...Given the amount of time I spend on LG smartapp to consume video content it would be a huge plus
I am also very very interested. I wonder if that's possible though, because LG will not allow it officially I am sure - so you'd have to jailbreak your LG TV and install it via Homebrew channel if Firefox existed.
What I am wondering, is: what would it take to create a IPK file of Firefox?
I would like to remindyou that from 7. March 2024DMA (Regulation (EU) 2022/1925) applies in the EUhttps://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/index_en ), which instructslargeoperators, amongother things, to integrate other browsers into their systems and give users the choice they want to use.
Since webOS meets this in my opinion, so if you give LG a functional Firefox for webOS, then itmustbe includedinthe mainmenuforall devices with webOSin the EU.
And this dramaticallychangesthe situation, becauseafterthe update(which they haveto do in the EU), it givesusersa choice – a built-in browser(not working on a lot of sites) orjust Firefox (whocomesfirst, grindsfirst) and suddenlythenumber of usersjumps – by an estimatedcoupleof millionormore (LGis nota crumbandthe EUhas447millionpeople, orit will includeit everywhere, ifit also evaluatesit as a benefitfor itself), i.e.it won't be just a few who would otherwise install it from the Store.
At the first stage, it might be a good idea to port only the Firefox ESR versiondueto memoryconsumption, where extensions and downloads are disabledand the number of possible Windows is limited.
Thisphrase no longer applies in the EU: "WebOS is primarily designed to work with the built-in web browser"