Mozilla Jumps on 'Lean Browser' Bandwagon

fader writes "Following in the footsteps of fast (and often fantastic) wrappers around Gecko (the Mozilla rendering engine), Mozilla has just released their own lightweight browser, Phoenix. Only Phoenix will still use XUL, the cross-platform markup language used for the current Mozilla interface. Will it still be fast enough to overcome the final gripe about Mozilla, namely that it's just too slow?"

This will look great....

[gurnb]

This will look great on my AMD 800 system with the 64meg (Obsolete) Video Card.

Isn't this a step in the wrong direction. Aren't new programs suppose to be bigger. (Bigger = Better) Won't this make regular Mozilla obsolete?

Why if this keeps up, Microsoft just might retool XP and release it on 3 floppy disks and call it Win 3.11!!

My complaint about Mozilla...

[Marijuana al-Shehi]

...is that their mascot [slashdot.org] looks like a horse with hydroencephalitus. Why is he red also?

Re:Standalone or component in new "Mozilla Suite"?

[Chainsaw]

What happened to the old and proven Unix approach of "Do only one thing, but do it well!"?

It was destroyed with the release of Emacs, as you might have noticed. By releasing a text editor that also could control your toaster, the Unix philosophy was dead.

Re:I timed it

[crawling_chaos]

I have a hard time using my online banking correctly, applying for jobs, and viewing a lot of imbedded video

Didn't your mom warn you that looking at all the embedded video would make you go blind?

Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go shave my palms now...