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Mozilla Jumps on 'Lean Browser' Bandwagon

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-it-doesn't-runs-on-osx dept.

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?"

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  1. Another Gripe by Kayaker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    My main gripe with Mozilla is that it still doesn't display some pages correctly. In general, I really like Mozilla and Phoenix, but, they still mess up some pages with tables and images and don't handle some java scripts correctly. For example, lately I've noticed that CNN is formatting their articles in such a way that Mozilla doesn't display them properly yet IE does (example) . If the Mozilla team wants to compete with IE, they should be able to correctly display all of the same pages.