Minimo 0.2

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Popularity:
#4 in Internet (out of 109 products)
License:
Free
Editor's Rating:
4.0 stars
Average User Rating:
2.0 stars (out of 13 votes) Rate it!
Downloads:
36,075
Requirements:
Windows Mobile 5.x
Limitations:
No limitations
Date Added:
August 14, 2007
Previous Versions:

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Publisher's description of Minimo

From Mozilla:

Minimo uses Mozilla Technologies to produce a highly usable Web browser for advanced mobile devices. Features include: Fast access to your mobile content via Homebase start page; Best support for modern Web standards (Javascript and AJAX); Social Bookmarking; Tab browsing; RSS Support; Proven security (TLS, SSL3); International support; Cross platform capability; Widget and Extension support.

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Editor's review of Minimo

4.0 stars
"Mozilla's mini mobile browser"

As a mini Mozilla, Minimo enters the fray of mobile browsers, filling the Firefox-shaped hole made sharper by the presence of cell-phone-size competitors vying for mobile browsing authority--Pocket IE, Opera Mini, and Yahoo Go. We found that on our PDA, Minimo is a strong candidate with decent browsing speeds, a modest but useful palette of preferences, and a slight twist on the tabbed browsing interface. For one, the browsing toolbar resides on the bottom of the screen and includes mobile-specific buttons for showing and hiding the address bar, increasing text size, and panning around the screen. Instead of navigating away from the home page--a portal with Google search and links to popular pages optimized for mobile viewing--Minimo anchors it as the first tab by default.

Minimo's cool blue-and-green color scheme isn't as cheery as that of some competitors, and there's room for more features, like entering a URL through the control panel as well as the "@" button. Despite that, Mozilla's minibrowser debut is a respectable one, and its appeal to open source to XML and JavaScript tinkerers interested in customizing the app will win it staunch supporters. Read a hands-on account of Minimo in the Daily Download.

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2 stars

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

Version: Minimo 0.2

"Tabbed browsing advantage over IE"

by armensoft--2008 on August 21, 2007

Pros: Tabbed browsing is the only advantage over default IE browser.

Cons: The EXE install does not work. It installs but will not run. I downloaded the .CAB version from mozzila.org and installed it to make it run. Slow to start and open pages. CSS sites are worse than IE. Definitely needs improvement.

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5 stars

Version: Minimo 0.2

"Wow ..... It is Great!"

by djons_wsp on January 31, 2008

Pros: Minimo helps me to cut my budget in using internet connection, faster than Internet Explorer. It works look like desktop mozilla. I can open my yahoo mail, download the very useful software from the web browser very fast surely. But I don't know resume available or not during download interrupted.

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2 stars

Version: Minimo 0.2

"Tabs are nice, but painfully slow."

by cdwhit on April 7, 2008

Pros: It's not IE. Tabs are nice. Seemed to have good page compatability.

Cons: Slow to start up, slow to load pages. Avoiding MS and enjoying tabs isn't worth waiting all day to read the web.

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4 stars

Version: Minimo 0.2

"it's a very goos browser for a smartphone,"

by stanescu_a21 on November 19, 2007

Pros: far better then ie, displays the pager more good

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1 stars

Version: Minimo 0.2

"Couldn't Use It"

by HootenannyPower on October 23, 2007

Pros: The tabbed browsing is an admirable idea, but new tabs would mysteriously open when I didn't want them to. I look forward to trying improved versions.

Cons: Installed it on a Windows Mobile 6 HTC 6800. The handheld's hardware keyboard would not work with the program. The software keyboard was impossible to manage ... would not consistently open and close.

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