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Phoenix 0.4 Released
Clark Kent writes "Mozilla's little brother browser,
Phoenix, has reached
version 0.4. New enhancements include themes support, type ahead find, and
number of improvements to pop-up blocking, toolbar customization, and tabbed
browsing, as well as the usual bug fixes.
Get it here."
I can't really tell you about Phoenix's features, etc as I'm about to start my download after I finish typing this comment, but I've been running Mozilla as my primary browser for a couple months now and it's quite nifty.
What I can tellyou is that no matter what anyone tells you about a browser, you won't be able to really appreciate what makes it great without trying it yourself.
Russ
Information doesn't want to be anthropomorphized anymore.
1.Your privacy can be assured. Tommorows EULA may want you to do a lot of things which you may not like. if you dont like privacy, then ignore this point. ;-). you will be making so many people on slashdot happy. They have given you +interesting karma. C'mon pay some back. Use phoenix. Better still use beta find bugs, report them. By helping in this effort you will be helping the common user. You will be helping freedom.
2.Free. Well since you bought win, it dosent apply maybe
3.Popup Blocking. If you say it dosent annoy you to have popups i think you are lying. I know you will say that third party programs are available, but many of those programs have spyware.
4. Security -> This was your question right? Well mozilla also may have some security issues, but going by record IE security issues have been far more alarming.
5. Conscience-> We all have one. I think you also do
6. Cool ness -> you gf comes and sees the dragon, my o my after boring netscape and IE logos you will show people u use the cool new browser.
7. Ego kick -> ever tried compiling a tough to compile software and see it run. I did kde 3.0beta, that to on solaris with most libraries missing. was real pain... but when it worked the ego kick was great. IE cant even come close to it.
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If I RTFM, computing would not be that funny :)
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Whats so special about a goddamn Phoenix release that makes it a topic on Slashdot? I mean fat wank....Phoenix 0.4 is released - like we need another browser like we need another slashdot... Maybe I should post 'MyPetProject 0.5 released' and call it news worthy. Even better lets turn Slashdot into a project release mailing list! Then everyone will know when everyone else's pet project is out...On that note here's my pet project that I get wet dreams about: http://subversion.tigris.org
Screw the Google toolbar - I'm helpless without multiple search engines, and that's what bookmark keywords are for. (I type "g something" and it searches google for that, "e2 something" to go to node at everything2, "imdb something" to search iMDB, and so on...)
Not sure if this feature is in Phoenix, but Mozilla has it.
And I'm sure there's a Mozilla/Phoenix toolbar .xpi somewhere for this if you absolutely insist, but I think bookmark keywords rule.
How to make a keyword search? Simple!
Search for a word on google (or any other search engine). Our word ="xyzzy".
When you get the results, add the resulting page as a bookmark.
Open "Manage bookmarks". Open properties of your new Google bookmark. The Location will look something like:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=xyzzy
Now replace "xyzzy" in your bookmark with "%s". The result should look something like:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s
Now you just add your keyword in the bookmark/properties field saying "Keyword:". We put "g" there.
Done! Click OK.
Now you can search google for xyzzy by entering "g xyzzy" in your location field.
This works in both Mozilla 1.1+ and Phoenix 0.3+. It might even work in earlier versions.
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First off, tabs, greatest thing on earth.
They are cool. I'll bet you dollars to donuts that IE7 has them.
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StrawberryFrog
I just tried Phoenix 0.4, and really like it, even over Mozilla. But because I really like Mozilla's email program, I won't switch to Phoenix until and unless Mozilla Mail is offered standalone from the browser. There's no sense in using Mozilla Mail and not using Mozilla's web browser... most of the stuff needed is in memory, so I might as well use it!
Here's hoping Mozilla is split up into separately installable components in the future. I have no desire to go back to any of the other email programs I've ever used (Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora mostly).
Good job on Phoenix though, very cool!
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I understand the motives of the Phoenix community: I'd love a leaner, faster Moz. But aren't we risking losing both Phoenix and Moz if we split into two separate projects?
... We also believe Mozilla, in general, is going in the wrong direction in terms of bloat and UI, and see no reason for our releases to carry those connotations.
First, few will contribute to or implement Moz if it looks like (and appearances count) its own developers and users are abandoning it.
Second, does mozilla.org have so many resources that it can be safely split between two projects? Either we have sufficient resources or one gets shortchanged.
Finally, isn't a lack of long term commitment to a product exactly what corporate IT fears about open source? Shouldn't we take extra steps to avoid the appearance of that problem?
Per the FAQ, and in many other places, the Phoenix developers definitely seem to intend to separate themselves from Moz:
it's not Mozilla. It's backed by mozilla.org, sure, but with each milestone you'll see it further diverge from Mozilla.
The Phoenix project may be a wonderful thing, but from the home page I can't tell why, or whether I want to use it. At least it mentions what it is in deep geek.
Too many open source projects assume that those who read their home pages already know what the project is for, or know why they would want to use it.
I would ask open source project folks to at least put a short description of their project (with minimal cryptic references to geek acronyms) and also a list of reasons as to why one might want it.
Computing today is too wide a field for all of use to keep track of every acronym and every open source project, so a web page that says "this is a better BLURP, using FARGLE and the new XVC standard" is pretty useless.
After all, what good is it to put a lot of work into a project if you keep away a lot of users by inadequate "marketing." If you want your work to be used and appreciated by lots of people, tell us what it is and why we want to use it!.
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