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Phoenix 0.5 Has Arrived

Posted by timothy on from the halfway-there dept.

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.

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  1. Performance improvements by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the changelog:
    "Performance improvements

    0.5 is certainly our fastest release ever. You might especially notice a boost if you have a blank page (about:blank) as your homepage."

    Does this mean that Phoenix renders a blank page faster than any other browser?

    1. Re:Performance improvements by Loki_1929 · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Does this mean that Phoenix renders a blank page faster than any other browser?"

      On a P4 3.06GHz (with SMT enabled), Radeon 9700 pro, 1GB PC2700, 18GB Cheetah X15 15,000 RPM SCSI hard drive, the Opera browser rendered a blank page 0.00000000234 nanoseconds faster than Phoenix 0.5. I suppose this means there's room for improvement before 0.6 in the blank page rendering benchmark.

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      -- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
    2. Re:Performance improvements by Loki_1929 · · Score: 5, Funny

      "How did you measure 7 billionths of a processor cycle?"

      Top10 Answers:

      10) With a Ruler
      9) Very Carefully
      8) Rather Quickly
      7) With a Stopwatch
      6) Listened Carefully
      5) Did it 7 Billion times
      4) Measured it against how long CmdrTaco lasts in bed
      3) Had the Comp travelling at .994c
      2) Rough Guess

      And the number 1 answer:
      1) Rounded up from 6.9 billionths of a processor cycle

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      -- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
    3. Re:Performance improvements by alexburke · · Score: 5, Funny

      And the number 1 answer:

      1) Rounded up from 6.9 billionths of a processor cycle

      *sigh* I'm so disappointed! That should have read:

      1) My Pentium rounded up from 6.9 billionths of a processor cycle, FDIV style

      Kids these days... :)

  2. Where? by rutger21 · · Score: 4, Funny

    New stuff since 0.4 includes multiple homepages

    So, where are Phoenix' other homepages?

  3. What's Mozilla On? by Lu+Xun · · Score: 5, Funny

    With the steady increase in computer power (led by the Moore company I believe) and larger disk drive space, why does anyone need a SMALLER browser? I had to upgrade my memory when I bought WinXP - that's how I knew it was better than the OLD windows. I think Mozilla should concentrate on their browser better, like making the GUI translucent, including the latest version of Flash, and packaging those handy (and FREE!) software packages that speed up your internet connection. For myself, I'll stick with IE - the browser that gets BIGGER all the time, and therefore BETTER.

    (remove tongue from cheek)

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    That's not a soda... it's a caffeine delivery device!
    1. Re:What's Mozilla On? by jim3e8 · · Score: 3, Funny

      My home network is comprized entirely of 100-160MHz Pentium machines running Win9x.

      Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those! It would be almost as fast as my laptop. ;)

  4. Rounding errors. by saintlupus · · Score: 2, Funny

    1) My Pentium rounded up from 6.9 billionths of a processor cycle, FDIV style

    I still remember a friend of mine's answer to the FDIV bug, as posted on a local BBS.

    "Remove the '/' key from all the keyboards you ship with these systems."

    --saint