Flashback: Firefox OS burns down, KaiOS rises from the ashes

The browser wars of the 90s and 2000s saw the dominant player – Microsoft’s Internet Explorer – locked in a David and Goliath battle against Firefox, an open-source browser that was spun off from work at Netscape.

A decade later another software war began – Microsoft was involved again with Windows Mobile, but the Goliath in this case was Symbian lead by Nokia. You should be familiar with the two Davids that took it on – Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android project.

However, today’s story is about Firefox OS, which was developed by Mozilla, the same community that had been working on the…