The new browser also includes tabbed browsing and a search box on a more streamlined toolbar - concepts that should be familiar to users of Firefox, a rival browser distributed by the Mozilla Foundation.
Doug Turner, the Mozilla engineer heading up the Minimo project, said: "This may be the first handheld browser to have both tabbed browsing and web services support. Mozilla's browser for small devices, Minimo, reached a milestone, as a pre-release...
Last month, Microsoft confirmed speculation that it would offer tabbed browsing in the upcoming IE 7. The feature - long offered by IE competitors such as Firefox, Opera and Safari, and by browser shells built to run on top of IE - is one of many...
Subsequent Mozilla-based releases over the years improved in quality but ballooned in size, prompting Apple to pass over Mozilla last year in favour of the KHTML open-source project when the Macintosh gained its Safari browser.
It has added support for web standards, RSS web feeds and tabbed browsing. Microsoft is encouraging even Firefox users to install the IE update, promising them that it won't make IE the default browser - or even ask them if they want to switch.
Firefox fans have praised the new browser's automatic pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing features, but security has been one of the big points. Previous studies from WebSideStory tested all operating systems, but the company said its Windows-only...