Mobile platform open source Firefox OS, as well as Android, is based on the use of the Internet, so most of the information processing operations carried out on remote servers. This reduces the power requirements of processors and other "stuffing", and therefore - and reduces the final price of the device. Platform architecture is formed by three levels: Gonk (the kernel and HAL), Gecko (rendering and API) and Gaia (the interface on the HTML5).
In order to be able to run Firefox OS on the computer need to load the assembly for your operating system and use the instructions here . The main purpose of production of desktop builds for Windows is a testing and testing of technologies and programming model.
According to the developers to create applications for Firefox OS to be easy, since 75% of the programs for Android and iOS work is based on HTML5, as well as by a sufficiently strong community of Mozilla and brand awareness.
Note that the first smartphone based on Firefox OS will be released in Brazil in early 2013.
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