Comments on: Yes Virginia, there is a Firefox Mobile

By: BbusyB

BbusyB — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:13:23 +0000

Minimo wasn't so bad, when you compare it to what else was available when it initially came out. Pocket I.E and think Opera mini 2 or 3.

The problem was that it was quiet resource intensive so that older or smaller Pocket PC's with slower chips tended to struggle.

While opera mini had a better interface, because it runs in Java it has its own share of issues.

The final issue was that development had more or less stopped as it was more of a 1 man project, so while the other browsers got better, Minimo got left behind.

By: Papa Jango

Papa Jango — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:24:58 +0000

Minimo was horrible and I'm hoping Firefox Mobile will be MUCH better than Minimo.

By: Thivyan

Thivyan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:44:31 +0000

I'm with Jake here. Been having loads of fun with it on my N800 for a while now :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:15:31 +0000

Only in purpose; Firefox Mobile is a replacement for Minimo from the (base Firefox code) up.

By: Sven Latham

Sven Latham — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:14:14 +0000

Is the Minimo project related to this?
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/

By: Ricky B.

Ricky B. — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:20:13 +0000

Concept? :) I've been playing with the Fennec beta on my Nokia N810 for months; it's a public beta.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:44:25 +0000

I'd have thought that after all these years they could have come up with something better than this. All that panning just to get to controls looks like a real hassle and I can't see it working well with pages that require horizontal scrolling. I could also see myself zooming out accidentally every time I try to get to the back button.

Also, I'd just like to point out that Internet Explorer had "kinetic scrolling" on tablets before the iPhone :)