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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. Re:Where? by thing12 · · Score: 5, Informative
    So, where are Phoenix' other homepages?

    Tools/Preferences/General/Location(s):

    You can enter the URL's separated by pipes (|). Or just click 'Use current page(s)' when you have your tab set open to the pages you want. It's way cool.

  2. Phoenix forums, themes and extensions by h2so4 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The best place to discuss Phoenix is at the Mozillazine Phoenix forums.

    Extensions are available here -- including radial context and mouse gestures.

    Themes are available here and there's a beautiful page of similar-but-different themes here.

  3. Anti-Aliased Fonts for Phoenix on Linux/i386 by pryan · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you want to use anti-aliased fonts with Phoenix 0.5 on Linux for x86, you can grab pre-built Xft-enabled binaries.

    Xft Enabled RPMs and tarballs built under RedHat 8.

    Xft Enabled tarball built under Debian unstable.

    If you aren't running RedHat 8 or Debian unstable, then you may have to do some work to get these pre-built binaries to run.

    I am running the Debian unstable Xft-enabled Phoenix 0.5 binary. It works just fine, and looks ever so good.

  4. Mouse Gestures in Phoenix by skunkeh · · Score: 5, Informative

    If, like me, you've been using Mozilla's mouse gestures feature for a while you're probably hooked. The good news it that they are available for Phoenix as well:

    http://texturizer.net/phoenix/extensions.html#gest ures

    Unfortunately there is no menu option to trigger them with the right mouse button (they default to being activated by the left button). If you want them on the right mouse button you will have to edit your prefs.js file. On Windows (depending on what version you are running) this can be found in C:\Windows\Application Data\Phoenix\Profiles\???\???\prefs.js

    Before editing the prefs.js file you will need to install the gestures XPI, then restart your browser and shut it down again (this will create the default mouse gesture preferences in the prefs.js file). Now open the file in a text editor and look for the following line:

    user_pref("mozgest.mousebutton", 0);

    Change the number to 2 for right mouse button (or 1 for middle mouse button) and you're done.

  5. Not faster by Door-opening+Fascist · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't mean to be a troll, but in my experience, Phoenix is no real improvement over Mozilla in terms of startup speed, at least for OS/2. Phoenix starts up about three seconds faster than Mozilla on a 200MHz 80586 with 64MB of RAM running OS/2 Warp v3, which isn't saying much when Mozilla takes damn near a minute to open.