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Mobile Firefox Comig Soon!!!

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
16 years ago3,436 views

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/10/firefox-coming-to-your-phone/
OMGOMGOMG!!!*Waves hands around like a crazed phsycopath, after murdering a woman and sniffing her hair*

Fonefox? Firefone?

Mrrix32 [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Firefone? AAHHH! My phones on fire! :D
Oh I want my old phone again....

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

It's about time!
So long Opera!

Can't wait!!

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I can't wait to see Firefox 3 get released first.

Ramibotros [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I dunnow why this should actually be exiting. Opera is doing fine, I guess. Unless this is gonna be extensible. Let's face it, people who prefer firefox do that because of the extensibility. Opera is faster, richer with features and smarter with memory management. So basically on a mobile device, Firefox just can't win the battle.

DPic [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Yeah, Firefox is working on getting more efficient especially in terms of memory usage. Opera is faster than Firefox and Safari is faster than Opera. IE is still slow as sh*t though.

People who prefer Firefox do so because it is open source.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Hmm, whatever happened to Mimo?

2004: <<According to German 4websites.de, Mozilla next year plans to release a mobile phone variant of Firefox code-named “Mimo.">>
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2004_11_11_index.html#110019283316034518

DPic [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Was this ever reported anywhere else? Searching for "mozilla mimo" on google in news and web search i couldn't find anything but your blog post

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Hmm. What's weird is that Google just suggested the spelling correction "Minimo" not Mimo, and that found this page:

<<Minimo uses Mozilla Technologies to produce a highly usable web browser for advanced mobile devices.>>
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/

Some commenters at Techcrunch also reference Minimo...

Rohit Srivastwa [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I have used minimo on my iPaq
its bad on memory utilization (as on PC) and is not very friendly.

Switched back to IE, atleast on handheld

David Mulder [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

According to some sources minimo was just a simplified firefox, instead this version should include practically ALL firefox functionalities. (especially adblock plus will be handy...)

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