Minimo 0.2

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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

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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  Tabbed browsing advantage over IE

  by: armensoft--2008 on 21-Aug-2007 06:39:38 PM

  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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  Wow ..... It is Great!

  by: djons_wsp on 31-Jan-2008 03:43:58 AM

  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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  Tabs are nice, but painfully slow.

  by: cdwhit on 07-Apr-2008 07:46:54 PM

  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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  it's a very goos browser for a smartphone,

  by: stanescu_a21 on 19-Nov-2007 07:58:22 AM

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

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  Couldn't Use It

  by: HootenannyPower on 23-Oct-2007 06:02:50 AM

  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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