Mozilla based browser for Nokia N800

by Brad Linder Jul 19th 2007

Looking for a portable web browsing device, but not a fan of the iPod? Nokia's N800 Internet Tablet sells for less than $400 and comes with a version of the Opera web browser. Not good enough? How about a Mozilla-based browser with many of the same features included in Firefox?

The maemo development team has released a new open source browse engine for N800 units running the Internet Tablet OS 2007. The browser supports AJAX, Adobe Flash 9, and RSS previews.

There's also support for add-ons. Although you can't simply install Firefox add-ons, developers can port existing extensions to work with the new browser.

[via UMPC Portal]

Tags: mozilla browser, MozillaBrowser, nokia n800, NokiaN800

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

James said 3:46PM on 7-20-2007

Got a 770 on Woot a while back, and I'm told that Tablet OS 2007 Hacker Edition (e.g. the OS from the 800 unofficially back-ported to run on a 770) *should* support this. Anybody got a link on how to do it?

Also, I know the 770 has supported MiniMo for a while -- any big advantage to "integrating" the Mozilla engine instead of just running MiniMo?

adriana vela said 1:24PM on 7-26-2007

I have a nokia n800 and would like to instal de mozilla browser where or how do I install it.?

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