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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft Software => Topic started by: TheQuirk on 25 September 2002, 04:06

Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: TheQuirk on 25 September 2002, 04:06: Mozilla finally released something that I really like. It's called "Phoenix" and it's a light way browser based off of Mozilla. It's the fastest graphical browser I used. I love it!

Download it!
It even supports tabs like Opera and Mozilla!

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/09/24/1215252.shtml?tid=154 (http://slashdot.org/articles/02/09/24/1215252.shtml?tid=154)
Download URL: http://mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/phoenix-release-notes.html (http://mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/phoenix-release-notes.html)
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: lazygamer on 25 September 2002, 05:11: Ummm what's wrong with Mozilla? I find it kicks IE's ass! I actually like it more then Opera. Why would I want a lite version? Is it really a slow browser?
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: TheQuirk on 25 September 2002, 05:17: Seeing that I don't have a very fast machine, Mozilla was usebale, but a bit sluggish, so I dumped it for Opera. Phoenix is faster then both.
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: Master of Reality on 25 September 2002, 06:31: i need a faster browser for my 200MHz machine running slackware. Every browser other than Lynx is slow.
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: Master of Reality on 25 September 2002, 06:43: phoenix r0x0r5 although it is still sluggish on my slow 'puter.

[ September 24, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / Bob ]

[ September 24, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / Bob ]
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: TheQuirk on 25 September 2002, 07:02: If you read their webpage it says that in the next few versions it will be smaller (and, in turn, faster).
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: lazygamer on 25 September 2002, 08:47: THAT'S IT! IM GETTING PHOENIX!
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: lazygamer on 25 September 2002, 08:59: THAT'S IT! IM GETTING RID OF PHOENIX! (http://smile.gif)

Phoenix is a little better speedwise, but not enough to warrant the awesome power I get with Mozilla. With Mozilla I can surf porn sites and be extremely protected against forced cookies, re-directions, pop-ups, stubborn pop-ups, non-closing/self-moving windows etc. What else? All this while still being able to enjoy a high compatibility rate with many sites? Yes, that is so. Can your IE do this? Can your Phoenix do this? I love Mozilla. (http://smile.gif)
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: TheQuirk on 25 September 2002, 21:07: Well, you can disable cookies / block cookies from sites.. As for the othre stuff, I'm sure someone will incorporate them into future versions. Remember, this is the first version!
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: Centurian on 25 September 2002, 10:10: I used to like Mozilla alot but recently I have found Opera to be better and faster overall. Opera 6.03 also seems to be very compatible with KDE.
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: Doogee on 25 September 2002, 13:59: i used mozilla and netscape for a while but now i use Galeon, i dunno why, i like the tabs and stuff, and good popup blocking.
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: sporkme on 25 September 2002, 14:03: i like phoenix -- will go on the 486 when i am done fixing it

mozilla still number 1 here

thanks for the heads up
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: lazygamer on 26 September 2002, 08:50: Phoenix does go somewhat faster when going through the internal menus, but I still like Mozilla. So suppose I had some suggestions for Mozilla(besides make it faster), would they like actually listen to me or at least respond if I suggested shit?
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: sporkme on 26 September 2002, 10:25: o p e n

s o u r c e
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: Master of Reality on 27 September 2002, 01:18: i'm sure they would listen to you. In fact the probable reason for Phoenix was because people wanted a faster version of Mozilla. I suspect phoenix will grow to be quite fast. Right now it is just a tad faster than mozilla and less configurable.

But of course Mozilla is opensource so you can hack away at it to make it whatever you like.
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: choasforages on 27 September 2002, 07:15: it takes a bit for it to load, but it renders fast, and the tabs are awsome, and i never liked opera, like, its closed, and the fucking ad's annoy the hell out of me, but then agian, pheonix looks awsome, but i don't have the resources to test it.
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: lazygamer on 27 September 2002, 21:22: Open source is 100% meaningless to me. I can't even program a hello world program without whipping out my C for dummies book. :D
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: liemaster on 27 September 2002, 21:25: I downloaded Phoenix. It sucked. It's even too lame for a 0.1 release. It crashed on 3 different web pages. What garbage.

the best browser of all time (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/)

It's true. It's faster than any other web browser and it never crashes. You liars must be using version 3 or something.
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: voidmain on 27 September 2002, 21:52: Hey, it's Harry Ballmer. I didn't know monkey boy had children..
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: psyjax on 27 September 2002, 21:55: quote:
Originally posted by void main:
Hey, it's Harry Ballmer. I didn't know monkey boy had children..

Oh don't tease him Void, he's just a stupid kid. Beside's, he's like a wannabe Zombie4846848 without the inteligence. Quite sad really.

We should pitty such people and treat them with kindness and tolerance. They certainly can't help themselves.
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: liemaster on 27 September 2002, 10:06: I see a Mac fanatic has gone out of his way to boost his ego while simultaneously dismissing me with a wave of his hand like a King dismissing a jester.
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: psyjax on 27 September 2002, 10:12: quote:
Originally posted by Harry:
I see a Mac fanatic has gone out of his way to boost his ego while simultaneously dismissing me with a wave of his hand like a King dismissing a jester.

Away with you peasant! :D
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: Kintaro on 27 September 2002, 11:54: If they port to apple classic, then i will put it on my m68k Classic, with 4mb of ram and a busty and huge 40mb hdd.
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: Kintaro on 27 September 2002, 22:00: quote:
Originally posted by void main:
Hey, it's Harry Ballmer. I didn't know monkey boy had children..

Harry Poter, because he had to have smoke a shitload off pot too be as dumb as he is.
Title: One of the greatest browsers
Post by: Calum on 27 September 2002, 23:30: quote:
Originally posted by Harry:
I see a Mac fanatic has gone out of his way to boost his ego while simultaneously dismissing me with a wave of his hand like a King dismissing a jester.

i cannot be arsed to come up with a reply, just wanted to quote this moron as a matter of course, so i could generally deride him. Well, 'harry', consider yourelf derided, liar.