Mozilla releases version 2 of Minimo mobile browser

Stan Beer
Saturday, 31 March 2007 05:24

Your IT - Mobility

As the release iPhone draws nearer, open source browser purveyor Mozilla has joined the throng moving to release more full featured browsers for mobile devices with a new version of its own project Minimo.

Mozilla's Minimo 0.2, which is compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0, offers full fledged browser features such as tabs, RSS and book marks. However, its look and feel is still very much a pale cut down imitation of Fire Fox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari, the full featured browsers found on desktop and notebook PCs.

Apple had previously set the cat among the pigeons by offering what amounts to a full version of Safari on its upcoming iPhone mobile device.

Apple aside, Norwegian browser developer Opera has come closest to emulating the full browsing experience on mobile devices with its increasingly popular Opera Mini browser, while Microsoft is almost at the beta stage with its Deepfish mobile browser.

The release of Minimo 0.2 has caused barely a ripple of interest to date and the future of the project is in doubt.