Nokia N800 Gains a Mozilla-Based Browser | Linux Today

Nokia N800 Gains a Mozilla-Based Browser

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 20, 2007

“A Mozilla-based web browser is available for Nokia’s
Linux-based N800 Internet tablet. The ‘MicroB’ browser was released
last night, by the Nokia-sponsored Maemo community that maintains
open source software stacks for Nokia’s tablets.

“The MicroB browser is based on Gecko 1.9, the same fairly hefty
rendering engine that will power Firefox 3.0, when it is released.
Thus, MicroB could work with some complex web page features that
the lightweight Opera browser does not support–Google maps, for
example, according to the project’s website…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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