12-10-2004, 01:00 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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From the Desktop to Mobile Devices - Mozilla Prepares Minimo
"Mozilla is hoping to move on from its success in the browser desktop market to tackle browsers on consumer devices such as phones, PDAs and television set-top boxes."
Earlier in the year, we posted on the Mozilla Minimo project - a browser primarily targeted at mobile devices. However, at its early stages, it was only compatible with Pocket PCs running Linux ports, making it available to only a very small consumer market! However, with the success of their final releases of their Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client, Mozilla are looking to build on this success by providing a browser for a greater range of mobile devices. Minimo 0.3 is expected in January 2005 and will feature many enhancements since the earlier 0.1 release. There's no mention for support of Windows Mobile just yet, but it's certainly a step in the right direction nonetheless. What do you think? Are any of you looking forward to having a Mozilla browser on your Pocket PC?
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12-10-2004, 01:03 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2004
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Hopefully it supports Windows Mobile soon... I'm using Firefox now, and it's so much better than IE. PIE is a little dull, but we've had help from some developers to enhance it... :mrgreen:
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12-10-2004, 01:13 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Re: From the Desktop to Mobile Devices - Mozilla Prepares Minimo
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
Are any of you looking forward to having a Mozilla browser on your Pocket PC?
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YES!
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12-10-2004, 01:27 PM
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Re: From the Desktop to Mobile Devices - Mozilla Prepares Minimo
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Originally Posted by Munky
YES!
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You know, I've grown to love Firefox and Thunderbird, so I can easily see why you're excited. :mrgreen:
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12-10-2004, 01:35 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Nov 2004
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I don't think I could get excited about having Mozilla on a WM2003 PPC, however I could get excited about Firefox or Opera.
Dan.
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12-10-2004, 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by dunos
I don't think I could get excited about having Mozilla on a WM2003 PPC, however I could get excited about Firefox or Opera.
Dan.
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Uh...Firefox is a Mozilla browser? :|
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12-10-2004, 01:41 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
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Originally Posted by dunos
I don't think I could get excited about having Mozilla on a WM2003 PPC, however I could get excited about Firefox or Opera.
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Uh...Firefox is a Mozilla browser? :| |
Not exactily. If you are talking about project names then Mozilla the browser is the big bloated brother of Firefox which is a lean mean browsing machine.
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12-10-2004, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by dunos
Not exactily. If you are talking about project names then Mozilla the browser is the big bloated brother of Firefox which is a lean mean browsing machine.
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Oh - I get what your post meant now. Well, I was referring to projects of the Mozilla company; not exclusively referring to the big brother that is Mozilla.  But the Mozilla browser does constitute a Mozilla project.  Either way, the Mozilla project of interest in this instance is Minimo.
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12-10-2004, 01:56 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Apr 2002
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Originally Posted by dunos
I don't think I could get excited about having Mozilla on a WM2003 PPC, however I could get excited about Firefox or Opera.
Dan.
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FIREFOX RULEZ!
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12-10-2004, 02:04 PM
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Firefox for PocketPC would rock. Especially tabbed interfaces....
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