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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. What is with the Mozilla naming conventions? by R2.0 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is it really necessary to consult a chart to make sense of their products?

    "Mozilla 2, the big revision coming after Gecko 1.9 and Firefox 3."

    So 2 is after 1.9, but is also after 3. But it's Firefox 3. But the product named Mozilla, the suite, stopped at 1.7.X, and was replaced by Seamonkey 1.0, which is really Mozilla 1.8.

    Anybody?

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  2. Reduced footprint by jimktrains · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Perhapses that knowledge could allow them to reduce the footprint of the full sized version, maybe? Hopefully?

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  3. Already using Mozilla Browser on my N800 by c41rn · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Check out MicroB, a mozilla-based browser for the Maemo platform on the N800. I prefer it to the default Opera-based browser that the N800 ships with. It's based on Gecko 1.9.

  4. The more, the merrier by Kelson · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The more fully-capable mobile browsers are out there, the less we need to worry about a return to the bad old days when people designed one version of a site for Netscape and another version for Internet Explorer, then let one version bitrot. We've already seen the first rumblings of iPhone-only sites.

    A mobile web with Opera, Firefox and Safari? It'll be a lot harder to justify picking one and locking out the rest.