Windows Phone Thoughts: Mozilla Minimo v0.1 Released

The Mozilla project has been developing alternative browsers for some time -- their Mozilla and Firefox browsers are becoming increasingly popular amongst Windows, Mac, and UNIX users. Apart from featuring integrated tabbed browsing and popup blocking, Mozilla uses a completely different renderer from IE ("Gecko") that can be used modularly with different UIs. A number of Mozilla programmers have taken that renderer and paired it with a very lightweight UI, enabling its use on handheld devices.



This very early release is only available for Linux ports on iPAQs, but this may very well be the first step towards a free alternative browser for handhelds running Pocket PC/Windows Mobile OSes, and may possibly simplify the development of new technologies for resizing content for handhelds. As a very happy Firefox user, I can hardly wait!