Mozilla dev dangles Chromecast clone dongle

Firefox OS clone would bring video from phones and browsers to your telly

By Simon Sharwood, 23 Jun 2014



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Mozilla Developer Network principal developer evangelist Christian Heilmann has popped out a tweet mentioning an effort to clone Google's Chromecast dongle, but with Firefox OS under the hood.



Chromecast is a minimalist Android computer that offers WiFi and an HDMI plug. The WiFi sucks video out of devices running Google's Chrome browser, the HDMI plug shoots it into a television rather more elegantly than is the case with either cables or the perennially-flaky DLNA. The result is a handy way to send a device's screen to a larger display.



News of a Firefox OS-based competitor came when Heilmann fluttered out the tweet below.



Full read here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/23/mozilla_dev_dangles_chromecast_clone_dongle/