Phoenix 0.5 Has Arrived 346
mattrix was among the legion of readers to submit news that "Phoenix 0.5 (Naples) has been released. New stuff since 0.4 includes multiple homepages, download fixes, history, size, memory, accessibility and performance improvements and more. Get it now for Windows or GNU/Linux (i686). Background info: Phoenix is a web browser based on the Mozilla engine, but smaller and faster than Mozilla Navigator." Multi-tab startup page seems worth the upgrade to me, all else aside.
Re:multi tab startup (Score:4, Insightful)
On that platform we need MORE browsers, not fewer, in the hopes that ONE will actually be good: fast, stable, compatible, and feature complete.
Mozilla is feature riddled but has compatibility issues (TrekBBS.com; MS using propietary plug-in format for WMP on Mac OS) and S-L-O-W. Chimera is fast, not entirely stable, but lacking features or their poorly implemented (History, Location bar).
Re:So let me get this straight... (Score:2, Insightful)
You probably won't want mozilla on an embedded device, but Phoenix will suit your needs. Plus Mozilla has been the testing ground for the coding practices, technology and design of Phoenix.
Why not have both?
Re:Performance improvements (Score:5, Insightful)
Clean up the skins mess for christ sake (Score:4, Insightful)
-josh
Re:multi tab startup (Score:2, Insightful)
Problem being that there's a finite number of monkies that can code at a given time on a finite number of computers of which few are Macs
Re:just unzipped.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Examples? Bug Reports?
If you don't tell anyone, it will never get fixed.
Phoenix Technologies makes a web browser (Score:5, Insightful)
It's not like these two are competing technologies.
Actually, they are. Phoenix FirstView Connect [phoenix.com] is a stripped-down web browser. Mozilla.org Phoenix is a stripped-down web browser.
Phoenix is a straight up IE killer
And Phoenix Technologies' product is a straight up Pocket IE killer. So will be Gecko, once the Weenies [mozilla.org] reduce its footprint.
Re:What's Mozilla On? (Score:4, Insightful)
It's nice to see that someone is actually making size and speed a priority rather than an afterthought, and without sacrificing functionality!
So far so good!
=Smidge=
A sugestion to slashdot. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Not to be a troll, but (Score:4, Insightful)
Slashdot has NEVER claimed to be unbiased. From the FAQ:
If you're not happy about that, you don't have to keep coming back.
Re:Performance improvements (Score:4, Insightful)
How did you measure 7 billionths of a processor cycle?
Re:multi tab startup (Score:5, Insightful)
Do you remember when the Aqua Mozilla themes were pulled? Apple didn't want skins that LOOKED like Aqua but didn't ACT like Aqua. The real concern was Mozilla on MacOS behaving inconsistently with the GUI it imitates.
Mozilla on MacOS X now has a custom front end, native to Aqua. Chimera is dependant on the Aqua front of Mozilla. If or when Phoenix ports to MacOS X, they and Apple will want Phoenix to have a native Aqua interface.
It's kind of stinky, but it's the best name brand policy both for Apple and Phoenix on MacOS X. However, I agree with you. Phoenix is leagues ahead and above of Mozilla, Chimera, IE5.5:mac, and Omniweb, in order of 0wn4g3. MacOS X needs Phoenix.
Re:Not to be a troll, but (Score:5, Insightful)
After all, you don't have to read what doesn't interest you. Just like you don't have use IE if you don't like it. Even if Phoenix sucks and even if 0.1 releases are meaningless, it's still one more option for folk who don't like other browsers.
(See, I wasn't either off topic.
Helpful hints - at last! (Score:3, Insightful)
See? Now was it really so hard?
If only all /. articles did not assume basic telepathy on the part of the reader.
Tim
Re:slashdot front page big fonts? (Score:3, Insightful)
i agree with you about using verdana over times-roman for on screen reading
however i think you got yr explanation mixed up - verdana is sans-serif (sans is french for without), and times roman is a serif font - serifs are the little things that hang off letters (like at either end of the top crossbar of a capital T in times roman) - they make a typeface more readable on very high resolution media such as paper but tend to make the typeface too 'muddy' on coarse resoultion media (such as CRTs and LCDs)
anyways, i'm sure you know all this and just mistakenly typed the wrong term - cheers