Mozilla to Develop Mobile Firefox 152
Kelson writes "Mozilla has announced a new initiative to bring Mozilla to the mobile web, including a fully functional mobile version of Firefox (yes, with extensions). The focus will be part of Mozilla 2, the big revision coming after Gecko 1.9 and Firefox 3. Minimo, the previous attempt to port Mozilla to mobile platforms, is apparently dead, but 'has already provided us with valuable information about how Gecko operates in mobile environments, has helped us reduce footprint, and has given us a platform for initial experimentation in user experience.'"
What is with the Mozilla naming conventions? (Score:4, Interesting)
"Mozilla 2, the big revision coming after Gecko 1.9 and Firefox 3."
So 2 is after 1.9, but is also after 3. But it's Firefox 3. But the product named Mozilla, the suite, stopped at 1.7.X, and was replaced by Seamonkey 1.0, which is really Mozilla 1.8.
Anybody?
Reduced footprint (Score:5, Interesting)
Wonder if it's the same as MicroB on the N800... (Score:3, Interesting)
Already using Mozilla Browser on my N800 (Score:5, Interesting)
The more, the merrier (Score:4, Interesting)
A mobile web with Opera, Firefox and Safari? It'll be a lot harder to justify picking one and locking out the rest.
Is this because of the iPhone's Safari? (Score:3, Interesting)
Let the browsers wars start again.
Re:By the time.... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:They have tries before (Score:3, Interesting)
In fact, Tamarin currently needs a fair amount of optimization to reach parity with Spidermonkey (in the case of untyped data anyway).