Firefox coming to your mobile - bit-tech.net Forums

CardJoe · 12th Oct 2007, 08:52

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/10..._your_mobile/1

A recent blog post by Mike Schroepfer reveals that a mobile version of the popular Firefox web browser is in the works.

voidboid · 12th Oct 2007, 09:32

Minimo was so clunky, slow and quite buggy on my WM6 phone... if the new browser addresses these issues I'll be happy. Pocket IE is terrible (but works quite reliably), which leaves Opera as the only viable alternative...

riggs · 12th Oct 2007, 09:47

Meh...great if you've got a fast PDA style phone, but for the time being I'll stick with Opera Mobile - runs fine on a SE K800i.

D3s3rt_F0x · 12th Oct 2007, 10:12

Could be something there doing with google for there own phone OS as posted the other day on here

Hamish · 12th Oct 2007, 10:23

wonder if they're going to just go with a normal type browser or one of the zoomy ones like safari on the iphone and the Deepfish browser MS are working on

<A88> · 12th Oct 2007, 10:29

Deepfish hasn't been updated for yonks...either MS are prepping a new IE for WM7 when it comes out next year or they've dropped the project completely. Opera Mobile is a pretty decent browser, it just requires me to go to the Midlets group first before opening it, making it a lot more hassle to get to.

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p3n · 12th Oct 2007, 10:50

Boy is there a need for a decent mobile browser, I doubt this generation of 'smartphones' will see one though (although safari on the iphone looks good apart from having no flash support)

The_Beast · 12th Oct 2007, 22:35

sweet, I love firefox

cyrilthefish · 12th Oct 2007, 23:06

One thing needs verifying here:

does it need a device with 64mb ram or actually need 64 mb ram?
i'm 90% sure it's the former, which would count for pretty much every current device

As a very heavy user of web-browsing on PDAs i'm looking forward to this...

In my personal opinion for current WM devices:
IE: fastest, but by far the most feature-bare browser (you want to do such things as 'save file/link as'? pfft! no chance)
Minimo: technically better, as it renders pages much better than IE but 4x as slow and takes insane amounts of RAM (about 40% of the available on my MDA)
opera: for some reason has never worked on any of my PDAs o.O

12th Oct 2007, 08:52	#1
CardJoe Player Character bit-tech Staff Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 7,945	Firefox coming to your mobile http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/10..._your_mobile/1 A recent blog post by Mike Schroepfer reveals that a mobile version of the popular Firefox web browser is in the works. __________________ this is joe's non-bit-tech blog

12th Oct 2007, 09:47	#3
riggs ^_^ Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Lincs. Posts: 1,643	Meh...great if you've got a fast PDA style phone, but for the time being I'll stick with Opera Mobile - runs fine on a SE K800i. __________________ Hell hath no fury like a hippo with a machine gun PSN ID: buster2006

12th Oct 2007, 10:12	#4
D3s3rt_F0x Hypermodder Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Near Middlesbrough Posts: 681	Could be something there doing with google for there own phone OS as posted the other day on here __________________ "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." - JFK

12th Oct 2007, 10:29	#6
<A88> Trust the Computer Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Bournemouth Posts: 4,797	Deepfish hasn't been updated for yonks...either MS are prepping a new IE for WM7 when it comes out next year or they've dropped the project completely. Opera Mobile is a pretty decent browser, it just requires me to go to the Midlets group first before opening it, making it a lot more hassle to get to. <A88> __________________ TheCounterfit.co.uk Twitter Facebook Last.fm Flickr! FriendFeed

12th Oct 2007, 22:35	#8
The_Beast I am The Stig Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 3,213	sweet, I love firefox __________________ Rendering Machine - Gigabyte DS3L P35 - C2Q Q6600 - Antec New Solution Series NSK4480B - Corsair XMS2 2Gb - Sapphire 2600 XT 256mb - Seagate 'Cuda 320 GB - Antec Earthwatt 430 watt - Windows XP Pro -

12th Oct 2007, 09:32	#2
voidboid Just some bloke Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Newport Pagnell Posts: 3	Minimo was so clunky, slow and quite buggy on my WM6 phone... if the new browser addresses these issues I'll be happy. Pocket IE is terrible (but works quite reliably), which leaves Opera as the only viable alternative...

12th Oct 2007, 10:23	#5
Hamish I Mod, Therefore I Own Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: London Posts: 3,587	wonder if they're going to just go with a normal type browser or one of the zoomy ones like safari on the iphone and the Deepfish browser MS are working on

12th Oct 2007, 10:50	#7
p3n Hypermodder Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 735	Boy is there a need for a decent mobile browser, I doubt this generation of 'smartphones' will see one though (although safari on the iphone looks good apart from having no flash support)

12th Oct 2007, 23:06	#9
cyrilthefish Hypermodder Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: UK Posts: 836	One thing needs verifying here: does it need a device with 64mb ram or actually need 64 mb ram? i'm 90% sure it's the former, which would count for pretty much every current device As a very heavy user of web-browsing on PDAs i'm looking forward to this... In my personal opinion for current WM devices: IE: fastest, but by far the most feature-bare browser (you want to do such things as 'save file/link as'? pfft! no chance) Minimo: technically better, as it renders pages much better than IE but 4x as slow and takes insane amounts of RAM (about 40% of the available on my MDA) opera: for some reason has never worked on any of my PDAs o.O __________________ AMD Phenom x3 720 @ 3.4Ghz \| Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H \| 4GB DDR3 \| ATI 4890 1GB\| 1TB Samsung F1 \| 64GB Corsair P64 SSD