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Mozilla's Mini-Me

Posted by michael on from the no-sharks-no-lasers dept.

An anonymous contributor writes "LinuxDevices has a story by the leaders of the 'Minimo' (Mini Mozilla) project, an effort to reduce Mozilla's code and runtime footprints and optimize its display for the small screens on embedded devices. The Minimo authors believe Minimo will become the browser of choice on embedded Linux devices with 64MB of RAM."

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  1. Contrast with Mosaic circa 1994 by shoppa · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The first graphical browser I ever ran - Mosaic on a VAX circa 1994 - was on a 16 Mbyte machine that supported a few dozen users at a time.

    Of course we thought it was an enormous resource hog back then too :-). And I didn't see how the web could possibly replace gopher!

  2. why mozilla? by drmancini · · Score: 5, Interesting

    if they wanted to create a mini-mi package, why didn't they start with the firefox codebase ... my guess is the browser would rock

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    Never underestimate the power of idiots in large groups
  3. mozilla OS by farkinga · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...how soon will PDAs boot directly into Mozilla?

    I know, i know... not too soon. Nor should Mozilla worry about the hardware side of things... So let's just say you boot linux and "use Mozilla as your shell", whatever that means.

    But imagine the consequences of a beautiful, persistent, PDA platform-independent "netGUI" that was extensible and modular... Sounds like Microsoft may soon perceive its toes to be stepped upon again. The next showdown? Mozilla vs WinCE.

    Is Mozilla becoming a reasonable platform for PDA application development? Sounds like that...

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