Nokia cash boosts Mozilla (News.com) [LWN.net]

News.com has posted an article on Nokia's funding for the Mozilla Minimo project. "Sources described the Nokia deal, inked last year, as a potential model for Mozilla's financial self-sufficiency. The group hopes to land more development grants to meet the needs of particular clients and at the same time make the resulting code freely available to all-comers. The foundation also plans to announce the corporate members of a technical advisory board in coming weeks."

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Nokia cash boosts Mozilla (News.com)

Posted Jun 18, 2004 18:18 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] (1 responses)

I wonder if Minimo can be made to run on normal Linux PC's as well? If so, on older machines it might be preferable to ordinary Mozilla or Firefox.

Nokia cash boosts Mozilla (News.com)

Posted Jun 18, 2004 22:01 UTC (Fri) by xorbe (guest, #3165) [Link]

I use a Via Nehemiah 1GHz mini-ITX at home -- the developers should be forced to use slow machines when adding features...

Nokia cash boosts Mozilla (News.com)

Posted Jun 21, 2004 23:05 UTC (Mon) by joelwest (guest, #13181) [Link]

Minimo is a project Mozilla has been working on for at least a year to shrink the browser. It is not embedded- specific, although that's where the greatest demand is.

They really have been trying to retain as many PC browser capabilities as possible -- this is not CHTML or WAP but full HTML. At the same time, they were effectively waiting for "small" systems to get bigger so they wouldn't have to shrink it too much. IIRC the minimum target configuration is a 64Mb iPaq 3950 although now they're doing most of their work with a 128 Mb iPaq 5555 .