UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Chit Chat Mozilla Phoenix 0.1 released

For all the Moz patrons out there, Phoenix is the new Mozilla project to redesign the UI, making it faster, more streamlined, and more customizable.

From the Release Notes:

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Phoenix is not your father's Mozilla browser. It's a lean and fast browser that doesn't skimp on features. A few of the features new to this release include:

• Customizable toolbar: The Phoenix toolbar is easily and quickly re-configured. Users can re-order the buttons and addressbar, can show large or small icons, and can chose to display buttons and text, text only of buttons only. The feature, available from the View|Customize Toolbar... dialog is a convenient way for the user, not the application, to determine what works best for her.
• Quicksearch for Bookmarks and History: The Bookmarks and History managers contain a quicksearch bar for quickly and easily filtering the list of bookmarks or history items. Quicksearch makes managing these lists faster and much more convenient.
• Speed, Speed, and Speed: Phoenix was designed with performance as a primary goal. The XUL experts built a browser that starts in nearly half the time of Mozilla and its commercial derivatives. New windows also snap into existence almost twice as fast as Mozilla and commercial derivatives.
• Overhauled Bookmarks Manager: Phoenix fixes lots of common problems with the bookmarks manager, and adds new undo/redo capability.
• New Look: The Phoenix browser has a fresh new look that combines the stylish icons of the Orbit theme with respect for the system colors/skins/fonts of the Mozilla Classic theme.
• Reasonable Default Settings: The Phoenix developers believe that the browser should just "do the right thing". They have configured behaviors for pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, and other features to simply "do the right thing".

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Links:
The main Phoenix homepage Release Notes
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I'm downloading it now, I'll let you know my opinions of it when I've got it installed and junk.

---Jamin

I'm using it right now, and it is very good. Still text area problems on message boards, but otherwise very good. Looks a lot better, too.

cool, thanks Let us know how it performs and if you'd like to write a review of it for the ezine

Its pretty good. Its got a very clean interface, almost too clean if you ask me.

Likes:
- Ability to use small toolbar buttons. (Mebbe this is in standard Mozilla, but I haven't found it if it is).
- The new skin is nice looking.
- Ability to customize the order/placement of the toolbar buttons/throbber.
- It is fast, tho I'm not sure how much faster than standard Mozilla. My box never had all that much trouble with the original in the first place.

Dislikes:
- Can't get Mouse Gestures to work.
- Can't turn tabs on all the time.
- Almost all preferences have been disabled/broken until the next milestone. (Otherwise the above two dislikes would probably be easy to fix.)

---Jamin

May use it, but in personal opinions is it better then the original Mozilla?

Yes it is, IMO. It is less stable but it'll get better.