Mozilla Firebird (Pheonix) goes 0.7 RC

based on Mozilla 1.5

[amznVibe]

Start your engines :-)

[ftp.mozilla.org...]

Reports are it takes a tad longer to load but browses even faster than 0.61

Also check out this Firebird "optimization guide [nextl3vel.net]"

[Nick_W]

Nice. That really is FAST....

<added>I'm very tempted to use this over Opera after a while browsing with it....</added>

Nick

[amznVibe]

I think 0.7 will start to get many more people onto the Mozilla path.

Check out this ever growing list of Firebird plugins (extensions) [texturizer.net] and Firebird tricks/tips [texturizer.net]

And they finally have a web installer [downloads.mozdev.org] available to help novices.

[amznVibe]

It's offical, 0.7 final:

[mozilla.org...]

[Hester]

Which is better? Firebird or Mozilla? I love the latter for its features (such as DOM Inspector) but don't find it slow. So is speed and no extras the only benefit of Firebird?

[MonkeeSage]

Firebird has a different UI / skins. Also, Firebird is just the browser application without any of the added stuff from the suite like the chat client, composer, &c. Though you can install everything except the composer in Firebird by way of third-party extensions if you want to. I think of it as 'Mozilla-lite' -- same great taste, but less filling. ;)

Jordan

[amznVibe]

You can add the dom inspector to firebird [mozillazine.org].

Firebird is definitely a bit faster than Mozilla

[bird]

I think I just switched from Mozilla to Firebird.

I've been waiting for a few features, and those are now available as extensions with even more functionality than what Mozilla brings. Most prominently regex based image blocking, and a number of other fine tuned controls.

We'll see if I still think it's ready after using it for a few days... ;)