April 3rd, 2008

Battle of the mobile browser

» Posted in Opinion at 7:22 pm

Recently Mozilla released an early prototype the mobile version of the popular Firefox browser, codenamed Fennec. Firefox fans have been eagerly downloading and testing it. However Opera announced that its Opera Mini Browser has been released for the Google Android platform. Opera Mini has 40 million users worldwide and is also used in the Nintendo Wii console and in numerous other portable devices.

According to Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner, “Opera Mini will be able to empower users of Android-based handsets with access to all of their favourite Web sites with popular features for smooth effects and scalable, tailored viewing.”

To make things more interesting, Microsoft is set to release an update for their own mobile browser. Stay tuned to see who will win this war.

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Date posted: Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 7:22 pm | Under category: Opinion
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