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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:Name change by Big+Mark · · Score: 5, Redundant

    From the phoenix site:

    I kept hearing that you were changing the name from Phoenix to something else. What happened?

    That was just a giant publicity stunt. We've observed that in the past, the open-source community has instinctively favored David when big corporations complain of trademark infringement. We wanted to cash in on this sympathy by asking the community to send us money to fight the legal battle (obviously we'd really spend it on cool stuff), but with all the taxing issues and whatnot we decided to can the idea.

    Uhhhh...really?

    No, not really. This isn't like an action flick where the evil madman reveals the intricacies of his plans to hostages and then leaves them alone with a bomb set to detonate in like 10 hours. When we're ripping you off, we won't explain how in the FAQ. The truth is that we'd already had this 0.5 released planned for awhile, so it was okay to release under the Phoenix name. But under no circumstances will any future release be called Phoenix.

    -Mark

  2. Not changing their name? by dpete4552 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I thought they were going to have to change their name. What happened to that?

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  3. Updated... by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 1, Redundant
    On my 16-Way Zeon system with a terrabye of RAM, I timed how long it took to open the apps:

    Mozilla ~ 1 sec.

    IE ~ 1 sec.

    Phoenix ~ 1 sec.

    Photoshop ~ 1 sec.

    Lightwave rendering of Shrek scene ~ 1 sec.

    3DES cracking ~ 1 sec.

    Trillionth digit of pi ~ 1 sec.

    Hope you find these results usefull. Remember, it's just a close approximation.