02-23-2004, 10:00 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Mozilla Minimo v0.1 Released
The Mozilla project has been developing alternative browsers for some time -- their Mozilla and Firefox browsers are becoming increasingly popular amongst Windows, Mac, and UNIX users. Apart from featuring integrated tabbed browsing and popup blocking, Mozilla uses a completely different renderer from IE ("Gecko") that can be used modularly with different UIs. A number of Mozilla programmers have taken that renderer and paired it with a very lightweight UI, enabling its use on handheld devices.
This very early release is only available for Linux ports on iPAQs, but this may very well be the first step towards a free alternative browser for handhelds running Pocket PC/Windows Mobile OSes, and may possibly simplify the development of new technologies for resizing content for handhelds. As a very happy Firefox user, I can hardly wait!
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02-23-2004, 10:08 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Wasn't there a Mozilla porting to PocketPC project where people could donate money to speed things up? Anyone who knows what the status is?
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02-23-2004, 10:19 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Nice that will be awsome. I am a Firefox user. I dropped IE a while ago. Firefox is so fast. I hope the Minimo will be just as good as FF.
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02-23-2004, 10:34 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Yes Yes YES! I want Mozilla on PPC!
Long time Mozilla, Phoenix, Firebird, Firefox fan.
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02-23-2004, 10:37 PM
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Pontificator
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This would be great!!!  
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02-23-2004, 10:51 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: May 2003
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Been using firebird/firefox for about a year now.. very happy with it
I hope they get around to a wm2003 port of it. PPC could really use a fast browser. Pocket IE is extremely slow
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02-23-2004, 10:59 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
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I've just switched to firefox, but I'm finding that getting into handango and pocketgear is not very nice. I keep getting timeouts.
Having said that, it's cookie handling is much better than IE's, I dont get the odd login errors on the PHP sites I administer with firefox.
I'd love to try it on the Pocket PC (without linux)...
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02-23-2004, 11:13 PM
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by darrylb
I've just switched to firefox, but I'm finding that getting into handango and pocketgear is not very nice. I keep getting timeouts.
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Hmm, that's weird. I haven't had any problems with those two -- the only mobile purchasing site that has issues with Firefox, in my opinion, is MobilePlanet.
--janak
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02-23-2004, 11:21 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 468
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Nice.
I generally use IE but occasionally switch to Firefox when testing web code or for a few other things.
I really don't care much for Pocket IE, though, and this would be a very nice alternative!
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02-23-2004, 11:21 PM
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Pontificator
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by darrylb
I've just switched to firefox, but I'm finding that getting into handango and pocketgear is not very nice. I keep getting timeouts.
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Check your cookie settings. If you have a cookie that it's trying to set blocked then this could be happening.
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