Guest ClintEastman Posted May 17, 2003 Report Posted May 17, 2003 Phoenix is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to Galeon, K-Meleon and Chimera, but written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. What's New? New default theme Mozilla Firebird 0.6 sports a crisp, fresh and attractive theme, based on the amazing Qute theme by Arvid Axelsson. Also, the new theme has icons for the Bookmark Manager toolbar. Redesigned Preferences window The new Options window puts the most often used preferences into seven convenient panels, each with a descriptive icon selector. Improved Privacy Options With a single click (and a confirmation) you can clear all privacy data including form data, history, cache, cookies, etc. Improved Bookmarks Among other bookmark enhancements, the Bookmarks menu now features a context menu. Try it by right-clicking on a bookmark in the menu. Talkback enabled You are now able to submit Talkback information when Mozilla Firebird crashes, which makes it much easier for developers to fix critical bugs. For more information read about Talkback in the FAQ. Automatic Image Resizing With this feature, Mozilla Firebird shrinks any image that is bigger than the window to make the whole image visible. When this is done, the cursor over the image changes to tell you that if you click, the image is restored to full size. Instructions on how to disable this feature can be found here. Smooth Scrolling Instructions on how to disable this feature can be found here. Access to more preferences You are now able to edit lots of advanced preferences that are not exposed in the Options window by entering about:config in the location bar and press Enter. Profile Chrome You can now install Mozilla Firebird extensions in your own profile folder instead of in the actual program folder. This means that you will be able to upgrade to new versions of Mozilla Firebird without losing all your extensions. Note that it's up to the extension authors to allow their extensions to use this functionality. Some extensions may not offer this as an option yet. Mac OS X Mozilla Firebird is available for Mac OS X. It's still quite rough around the edges but it's a start. Lots of bug fixes There have been too many bug fixes since Phoenix 0.5 to keep track of them all. It's better. Trust us ;-) View: Download: Mozilla Firebird 0.6 for Windows Download: Download: Mozilla Firebird 0.6 for Mac OS X
Guest madu Posted May 17, 2003 Report Posted May 17, 2003 Can you expand a bit on what it actually is for the ignorant ones... I am using Mozilla 1.3 now.
Guest amo Posted May 17, 2003 Report Posted May 17, 2003 Its a net browser right, just another version as IE has version 5,5.5 and 6 etc...
Guest madu Posted May 17, 2003 Report Posted May 17, 2003 WOW!! This ROCKS! And it doesn't need installation. Love it! PS: I can uninstall Mozilla1.3 now right?
Guest madu Posted May 17, 2003 Report Posted May 17, 2003 Clint - you are a * !! I think it's totally and absolutely cool!! Apart from that it seems like it uses IE engine or had been packed with similar features. It now has - InLine AutoComplete - Ctrl+Enter adds www. and .com to the word entered in addressbar *me happy*
Guest Emad Posted May 18, 2003 Report Posted May 18, 2003 No, IE uses its own engine for rendering (kinda oddly sometimes, but it uses the os features to speed stuff up). Firebird is a stripped down version of Mozilla - ie the browser only. The e-mail client of the Mozilla suite is also going standalone in the form of Thunderbird (?). Check out the extensions and themes, you can make it look pretty and have mouse gestures and stuff :) Oh, make sure you get the advanced tabbing extensions - tabs rock.. Not the cambridge type /oxford bias.. The only thing I don't like is that the bbc page loads sooooo slow because of the news ticker :(
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted May 18, 2003 Report Posted May 18, 2003 Does it still use uncopious amounts of memory?
Guest antz Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 *makes obligatory naming joke*: Firebird: I REname the Browser Into an RDbms! It is a light browser.. and never used a lot of memory! It uses Mozilla engine and has nightly builds which can be downloaded off their website for those who make the assumption that it compiles ==> it works. Some builds are more stable than others! Not sure what the Windows version is like, but I saw it run under Slack 8 yesterday and I liked it. It is a serious candidate to replacing my Opera (7.11 relesead in the last 12 hours). I particularily liked the pie menus, but I may have a bit of trouble switching to them from the Opera-Konqueror-Galeon mouse gestures. Close tab is now Up then diagonal Down-Right I think. I am still struggling to find an apt repository with it in.. Also the window sizes of the dialogue boxes are fixed, so using large fonts may force you to resort to the tab key to apply options.
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 Don't get me wrong, i like mozilla and love tabbed browsing. However when i was using it a few months back it constantly ate 60MB+ of memory :/
Guest Emad Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 Oh, don't forgot to check out http://texturizer.net/firebird/ if you're using it - v useful site.
Guest madu Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 I love it, and with the ORBIT3+ skin it just ROCKS! And no, mono, it does not eat my memory. In fact it is sooo much lighter on mem than IE or Opera. I was disappointed in Opera BTW>
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