firefox as an operating system

[mike hillman]

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The graphic subsystem Cairo can use mini glx that only creates a
window and loads the graphics driver for the specific graphics card.
Using opengl for Firefox's native output would also create the
opportunity for canvas to be used to create 3d web applications more
seamlessly and would also enable the ability for other web standards
like java script to create their own 3d web apis. This would also
give the ability for Firefox to be ran from the command line but the
concept would also work just fine with other operating systems that
have full window systems.
.The more interesting version of Firefox would be using it as a
terminal and having the command line ran in the the web browser as a
form using multipart mime messages. Apache would be used to create an
instance of a shell using bash and keep the shell running by using
chunked mime messages. Cairo would still be used as the graphics
subsystem and would use opengl but it would use fbgl to output
graphics and would just use screen and the different windows would
tabs created by the browser. The key board would be a serial device in
Linux instead of the terminal.