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Mozilla to Develop Mobile Firefox

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the practice-makes-perfect dept.

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.'"

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  1. it's a pattern of behaviour by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 thing I like about Firefox, is it's something people can really embrace, and extend.

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    1. Re:it's a pattern of behaviour by Daimanta · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hey there Bill. Wait, what are you doing with that extinguisher. No, wait, STOP, WAAAAAGGGGHH

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  2. Re:By the time.... by Kelson · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll bet that at the sluggish rate Gecko development proceeds, by the time the mobile version appears, mobile devices will have almost the power of today's stationary hardware.

    Wow! Someone who actually read the article!

  3. Google Phone by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 5, Funny

    This isn't surprising considering Google's recent purchase of Mozilla, and the search giant's new focus on mobile with their Google Phone.

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  4. Odd item in Related Links by Kelson · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anyone else think that "Compare prices on Mozilla" is an odd choice to appear in the list of Related Links?

    "Let's see, you can get it from this site for $0. But this one is offering it for $0. Or you could go over here and get it for $0, but they charge $0 for shipping. Hmm, I think I'll go with the place selling it for $29.95."

  5. A new name? by Arghdee · · Score: 3, Funny

    I suggest they call it:

    MObile FirefOx

    Then, we can abbreviate that to Mofo.

    1. Re:A new name? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      The Mozilla Foundation is already sometimes called MoFo, and it requires a much less retarded interpretation.

    2. Re:A new name? by butterwise · · Score: 5, Funny

      I prefer FoxBile.

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  6. Peer into the future by Bobfrankly1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apple: Iphone burns up in owner's pocket, flames burn up to his neck
    First slashdot post:
    "Liar Liar pants on..."
    ...followed shortly by...
    "Was he running FireFox?"
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  7. Re:What is with the Mozilla naming conventions? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/2007091417 Firefox/2.0.0.7

    Simple.

  8. Reduced memory footprint?? by Em+Ellel · · Score: 4, Funny

    Firefox on mobile devices? Great, but where do I get 2GB of ram for my treo?

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  9. Re:Reduced footprint by Kalriath · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's not a bug, he was just spell checking using the Gollum dictionary. The English ones don't include "perhapses".

    My Precccccciooooouuuuuuusssss?

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  10. Re:Why have 23 flavors when you can't do vanilla? by Atti+K. · · Score: 2, Funny

    It can run at least for two days. See JerkBoB's comment above. It was started on Oct 9th. It just uses a few hundred MB's of RAM :P

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  11. Re:come on now by Kalriath · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're referring to PIE (Pocket Internet Explorer. Tastes bad, not to be confused with Apple PIE or Apricot PIE).

    Details page: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/microsoftprograms/iemobile.mspx.

    It's ultra basic. No popup support, no Flash, no ... wait a minute... can I get it for Windows XP?

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