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Phoenix 0.4, new release

         

littleman

6:20 pm on Oct 30, 2002 (gmt 0)



What's new:
# Improvements to pop-up blocking
# Improvements to toolbar customization
# Improvements to tabbed browsing and shortcut keys
# Type ahead find returns
# Addressbar gets smarter
# Bug fixes
# Themes

Right now it is sitting at about one more MG of ram usage than Galeon [galeon.sourceforge.net], but what I found enlightening is what is said in the FAQs about it's footprint.


You said this is a lean, lightweight browser, but it's {7MB; 9MB}! I laugh at your silly lies!

Take it easy, sport. Phoenix is already 35% smaller than Mozilla. It's also worth noting that we're still carrying the weight of many Mozilla files that we've replaced. For example, we still build and ship with Mozilla's form manager, even though we now have Satchel, its lighter replacement. Phoenix also still contains a lot of Mozilla's chrome (front end) files, even though it has its own. We're still trimming the fat and we expect to be able to hit something near 6 MB (Windows) and 7-8MB (Linux) before we're done.

[mozilla.org...]

This is one to keep watching.

4eyes

12:44 am on Dec 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I've just swithched to Phoenix.

With the toolbar customised to include the javasvript and proxies options, this is one cool 'SEO tool' browser.

I'm impressed!