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by reidrac 4673 days ago
Yes, there are a few issues, but the OS is really promising and I like the device.

At first I wasn't sure if I was leaving behind my Android phone, but I'm going to do it and trust things will improve although right know my smartphone is not as smart as it used to be.

For me the biggest issue is the email app not supporting self-signed certificates. I've been self-hosting my mail for the last 10+ years and this is the first time I regret it ;)

EDIT: ate a word

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Totally Off-topic, but you can get free certificates from StartSSL [1]. I'm using one of those for my personal server and I've had no issues at all. Firefox and thunderbird recognize the CA by default, so I guess Firefox OS should too.

[1] http://www.startssl.com/

I did that last night and the client is still a little bit picky. I only managed to make it work with smtps, the regular smtp with STARTTLS didn't work.

Oh, well... now I have mail back in my phone. I guess the "0.1alpha" in the User-Agent is well deserved ;)