On 9/25/2002 9:46 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Tim Wunder wrote: > >>There's a code fork in the Mozilla UI called Phoenix, >>http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/ >>It's a browser only implementation, I guess it'd be similar to the likes >>of Galeon, only it still uses XUL for the UI. Version 0.1 has recently >>been released. >>So far, it seems they're only building for linux and Windows. >>Seems to be rather snappy in the few minutes I've been playing with it... > > > Ya, i noticed it yesterday as well. Overall feelings on /. were that its > still a bit rough around the edges (even for a Mozilla type project). > Seeing as how it still lacks alot of the configurability that Mozilla has, > i'm going to wait a while longer before trying it. Its easy to remove > features and improve performance. >
AFAIK, it just lacks the UI to the configurablility. Any browser settings available to a user thru use of prefs.js and user.js are available. The big performance benny is the removal of mail/news, chatzilla, composer and their attendant cruft. It's *just* the browser. According to the release notes, much of its size (it's *still* and 8-10 MB download) consists of unused Mozilla files that haven't been removed yet. It *does* have features that Moz doesn't, though. Two of which seem pretty good: a customizeable tool bar and a quicksearch for history and bookmarks. I'm curious to see how it loads at home under KDE3 and if it will work with kmail -- will clicking on a mailto link in Moz open kmail? The Windows version opens the default Windows mailer, but trying a mailto link using the linux version under Gnome/RedHat 7.0 doesn't do anything. As far as what the /.ers say about the project, I'd be more inclined to listen to people who investigate and read prior to making comments. I find the majority of posts on /. are made by people who simply don't have a clue... I do know that the 4 guys referenced in the release notes that are intimately involved in the project have been around the Mozilla project for a *long* time, and know what they're doing. Phoenix is gonna be a *very* nice browser, and probly in short order. IMO, they need a second group to spin-off the mail/news client and fix that, too... Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
