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CNet covers Nokia's investment in the Mozilla Foundation's 'Minimo' browser for mobile devices, a move that happened last year but is just now coming to light. The aim is to provide a free, open-source web browser in a small, computationally-lightweight package that would excel at rendering web pages on the small screens and small memory spaces of mobile devices -- specifically mobile phones, but also on PDAs and other portables. With the current version of the streamlined Mozilla-based browser Firefox weighing in at a slender 4.7MB (the recent 0.9 version is actually smaller than 0. , the Mozilla developers have shown they have the technical ability to push out a stripped-down browser in Minimo that will run nicely on the horsepower-limited (but growing) mobile devices of the future.
If nothing else, the cash infusion from Nokia for Minimo will help Mozilla continue to push out browsers for the PC market, as well.
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Posted: 2004-06-18 18:44
