Nokia Invested In Mozilla?

Pine UK writes "The Register, is reporting that Nokia has invested in the Mozilla Foundation. This news should come as a shock to Opera, who in recent times have had a very large market share in the area of portable device browsers. Opera has also been the browser choice for Nokia, who ship it with all their Symbian 'smartphones.' Nokia have not yet confirmed nor denied their investment in Mozilla."

Comments

Memory footprint.

[Anonymous Coward]

Umm.. this chart is in bytes, right? Right?!

Re:Memory footprint.

[rasz]

Currently minimo takes up about 25 mb of RSS. This graph show the memory usage while running the browser against the page loader test.

LOL no :), its in kBytes, minimo takes ~12MB for itselfe + another 24 for the data from Pageloader :)

Somehow doesnt sount as minimal as it should be, I'l stick to Opera.

PS: Anybody got Opera Pageloader stats ?

Was on CNet yesterday

[anandpur]

Also repoted by CNet yesterday

Mozillazine &c

[sepluv]

This was also reported on Mozillazine (were they are putting up a fuss that the Mozilla Foundation did not report this funding on their site first).

Also on many other news sources.

There is also more info about the nice little Minimo project (to produce a Gecko-based browser with a tiny footprint).

Re:Which is better....

[bhtooefr]

Opera's still half the size of Firefox, and it's got an e-mail client, IRC client, RSS reader, etc., etc. in there. It's got a Mozilla-like feature set, with a smaller-than-Firefox footprint, and it's one of the fastest full-featured browsers there is (non-full-featured being stuff like Lynx, Links, Dillo, etc.)

Also, I like that I don't have to install 10 extensions to get Opera to behave the way I want it to...

Nokia has confirmed the deal

[amacedo]

Well, sort of. Check out this article at News.com

It comes as no suprise since Nokia's strategy has clearly been one of standardization.

And what better way to standardized than to support an open source project?

There's life beyond smartphones

[vesuri]

Even though Nokia is widely known as a mobile phone manufacturer they do have other products as well. Their plans to incorporate Mozilla into their DVB products (the Mediamaster product line) as the web browser component have been public for a couple of years now.

heise.de confirmed this yesterday

[mksolutions]

as you can see heise.de which is very reliable posted this story yesterday.

Nokia wants to use Minimo in their smartphones.

Errors in your logic - please get informed.

[hkmwbz]

I'm sorry, but your arguments are flawed, and so is your logic.

Do you really think Firefox is popular because it's bundled with an OS hardly any end-users use?

Also, Opera is not available for only one Nokia phone. It's available for Symbian Series 60 phones, and there are more than one Nokia phone based on that, as well as phones by other manufacturers.

Your list of "bundles and browsers" is basically seriously flawed, and your entire post falls apart. Firefox does not rely on eComStation to survive, and Opera does not rely only on Nokia.

So 7.51 being one of the last Opera versions unless it gets on eComStation(!) is pure nonsense and wishful thinking on your part. Why would Opera go away when its user base is growing and they are making more and more money?

Your post sounds a lot like a karma whorish post with some vague points that make sense unless you know a lot about this, in which case, it just sounds like nonsense.

Unfortunately, you managed to fool a few moderators...