hmm, i notice that i can install skins in phoenix, and that it seems to come with 'classic' and 'modern' skins. however, if you try to use any of these you can't! it just continues to look like mini-Orbit, or whatever it is. Also, there's a thing about mozilla skins, how come you can't have the skin be random on startup, like xmms?
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Originally posted by void main:
What's the difference between it and Mozilla? I read over the page and it seems like it is more or less a cut down version of Mozilla. What am I missing?
basically, it's personal preference.
I don't use mozilla composer, or mozilla mail. Those are not packaged with phoenix, it's just a browser on its own, however i think its a very good one.
it's very fast and it doesn't have any scurf hanging on that you don't need. At the moment it looks like about 7Mb, and frankly, that's about 35 mins of download, compared with 2 to 3 hours or so for mozilla, netscape or opera.
Also, it's great at version 0.4, and has never crashed for me on windows (which i use sometimes at work) or linux (and you can of course use the mouse gestures, prefbar and tabbed browsing extensions, if you can get them to work in linux! (they work in windows due to windows being very dumb about permissions)), so imagine how streamlined it will be by version 1.0!
One other thing, it does not require installation. Just extract it into a directory, and whammo, there it goes. This is a real benefit in windows, as it avoids any registry shit, and it's a bonus in linux as you (a) know where all the files go and (b) can do 'ln -s /usr/share/phoenix/phoenix /usr/bin/phoenix' and then when you update your copy of phoenix at a later date, you need do nothing except delete the original phoenix directory and replace it with the new one. (i know, i know, but this sort of thing is still good to me, after windows!)
it looks like while mozilla is an attempt at a full featured 'netscape' clone, phoenix is a streamlined and stripped 'mozilla' clone.
still didn't figure out how to install the prefbar in linux though... in mozilla neither.
[ November 06, 2002: Message edited by: Calum & his insidious little spies ]
