Mozilla Minimo v0.1 Released

[Janak Parekh]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/releases/arm/0.1/' target='_blank'>http://www.mozilla.org/projects/min...leases/arm/0.1/</a><br /><br /></div>The <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/">Mozilla project</a> 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.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/parekh-20040222-Minimo.gif" /><br /><br />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 <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/">Firefox</a> user, I can hardly wait!

[prismejon]

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?

[dean_shan]

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.

[Paul]

Yes Yes YES! I want Mozilla on PPC!

Long time Mozilla, Phoenix, Firebird, Firefox fan.

[Jacob]

This would be great!!! :) :D :) :D

[SlimDady]

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

[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.

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)...

[Janak Parekh]

I've just switched to firefox, but I'm finding that getting into handango and pocketgear is not very nice. I keep getting timeouts.
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

[Perry Reed]

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!

[Jacob]

I've just switched to firefox, but I'm finding that getting into handango and pocketgear is not very nice. I keep getting timeouts.


Check your cookie settings. If you have a cookie that it's trying to set blocked then this could be happening.

[darrylb]

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.

Its not until I hid the Members link at Handango that I get problems. The rest of the site works fine

Check your cookie settings. If you have a cookie that it's trying to set blocked then this could be happening.

In theory, if I have set the default settings, it should be fine. I have not blocked any cookies, in fact, I've just set a cookie exception to always allow cookies from *.handango.com, and I still get the same problem. Funny really. I also like the tabs - much better than opening a heap of windows....

[arnage2]

give me mozilla or opera for ppc, the 2 greatest browsers. (i only occasionally use ie due to compatability)

[Tom W.M.]

Great.

I'm a die-hard Firefox user, and I've been hoping for a useable browser for my MobilePro H/PC for a long time. I hope that they port this to CE 2.11.

Do we have any more information? It looks to me (from the screenshot) like they stripped off all of the XUL inferface stuff and replaced it with a native GUI—anyone know?

[jerboa]

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?

Here's the link: http://www.sourcesupport.org/

Jerboa

[Robotbeat]

Yeah, I use Mozilla instead of IE because IE just kept freezing up at the computers at my college/university when I was doing summer research with a friend of mine ($10/hr is pretty good if you work on something you love doing and you have the most flexible hours in the world). I mean, IE would freeze for a minute every time a new IE window opened (all the IE windows would freeze, not just the new one). This included when a webpage opened a new window automatically. It was just rediculous, so I downloaded Mozilla and haven't looked back. Since then, I've grown to love the tabbed browsing and the ability to just highlight text and right click on it to search for it in Google in a new window. It's not much, when you think about it, but it's the little things that count. I mean, it's just so much easier when you are searching to open all the candidate pages in tabs in the background just by clicking the middle mouse button without having to have them open up and get in the way.

I really hope that this Mozilla project makes its way to the PPC, although I sort of doubt that that will happen very soon.