Phoenix 0.3 Is Out

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Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 15, 2002 @06:59PM from the no-no-phoenix-0.3-is-in dept.

David Tansey writes "The Mozilla-based stripped down browser has now reached binary release 0.3. They are ripping out all the mail and news functions, composer functions, and IRC functions. The point is to work against the 'monolitic' mozilla trunk and make a browser, not a suite. I've noticed that it now uses considerably less memory than Mozilla uses and loads faster. Check it out here."

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Soon there will be nothing left by StefMeister · 2002-10-15 19:03 · Score: 3, Funny

The Mozilla-based stripped down browser has now reached binary release 0.3. They are ripping out all the mail and news functions, composer functions, and IRC functions.

If they continue like this, there will be nothing left by 0.5 :)

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Mozilla-based stripped down browser by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-15 19:06 · Score: 1, Funny

I hope they didn't trim the Mozilla lizard's balls. I wouldn't want to use a browser with a neutered mascot, however lean the actual browser might be.
Heathens! by Anthony+Boyd · 2002-10-15 19:07 · Score: 5, Funny

The point is to work against the 'monolitic' mozilla trunk and make a browser, not a suite.

My God. You mean they want to make an app that does one job only, and does it well? But that's so... so... Unix! I thought we were supposed to be making everything the same as Windows. I mean, IE has chat and email and... oh, wait. Nevermind.

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1. Re:Heathens! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-15 19:12 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Anthony, stop reading Slashdot and hire someone for that PHP position already. ;)
This bug says it all... by Christopher_G_Lewis · 2002-10-15 19:09 · Score: 2, Funny

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171082

BugZilla won't allow direct links from Slashdot. Wonder why :-)

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Re:Phoenix / Thunderbird (Minotaur) by Jugalator · 2002-10-15 20:10 · Score: 2, Funny

Thunderbird is the new name of the Minotaur project. Unlike what some said, they are thus one, and will fill the same function as Phoenix for the mail part.

Hmm... I wonder what IE would be if following this naming convention... Mammon? :-)

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Re:Interaction, not Merging by richie2000 · 2002-10-15 23:45 · Score: 3, Funny

Because I have a zillion e-mail messages neatly stored in Mozilla Mail right now and it's no point in switching browser if I still run a mailer with a browser attached. :-)

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Bad news! by varslot · 2002-10-16 00:06 · Score: 5, Funny

A conservative linear prediction based on your data for size versus version number shows that Phoenix will disappear somewhere between version 1.7 and 1.8. However, as the data seems to follow a quadratic curve rather than a linear one, the disappearance is likely to happen a lot sooner.

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1. Re:Bad news! by Jugalator · 2002-10-16 01:51 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  ... as in 1.0? That would be a great way to celebrate the world's smallest browser!
  
  "The Phoenix Team is proud to announce that we have finally shrunk the browser to the ultimate size: 0 bytes. Thanks to everyone supporting us in our quest to develop the smallest browser on earth."
  
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