Firefox on Palm Pilot??

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Firefox on Palm Pilot??

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I have a Palm TX and i am wondering if there is a way to get Firefox to work on it. I have tried using Portable Firefox, but it doesnt seem to work (though it could be user error rather than technical problems...)

Any body know if it is possible?
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Well I would of said that it wouldn't work due to the fact that it was designed for PC use via a USB stick, but it appears that someone got it working on their palm from their SD card (using Softicks Cardexport). However this was 2 years ago, so it is entirely possible that the current version has been changed so that it no longer works any more. How it worked before is beyond me >_<

The closest you can get to Firefox on a PPC is minimo (a miniture mozilla browser) but unfortunately for you, it is Win Mobile only.

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There was some talk about someone working on porting minimo for a palm (supposedly he was already using it on his) but nothing that i have seen verified anywhere.
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I caught that too, but then in another thread (might have been same forums) they said the dude working on it had stopped.

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Bummer!

wel, there is always Opera mini; http://www.operamini.com/

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ive never used opera, or opera mini. hows it hold up against firefox?
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bigblockmatt wrote:ive never used opera, or opera mini. hows it hold up against firefox?
I think you should be asking how it holds up against blazer!

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well, i think anything other than blazer would be an upgrade...
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There you go then.

http://my.opera.com/larskl/blog/show.dml/16263

blog on with a little discussion...
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