Phoenix 0.5 ReleasedSaturday December 7th, 2002Version 0.5 of Phoenix has been released for Linux and Windows. Amongst other improvements, this version now allows you to set a group of tabs as your home page and open history items in tabs. There's also support for the Back and Forward buttons on the IntelliMouse Explorer and Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 users will find that the Classic theme now blends in better with the operating system style. Of course, this release is also smaller and faster than ever before. Check out the Release Notes and then grab a build. Give your feedback in the Phoenix Forums. 0.5 will be the last release to be called Phoenix. Version 0.6, expected in January, will have a new name. And they really mean it this time. We're having some issues with the FTP servers. If you have trouble getting a build, please try again later. http://ftp36.newaol.com/pub/phoenix/releases/0.5/ should be a working link if you're having trouble with the others. --Asa If you're getting problems with dismissing menus by clicking on them, this is bug 179567 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179567 a problem picked up from the Mozilla trunk. I've been trying the Phoenix builds all along, and I haven't been 100% sold until now. This build is fast, small, looks great with some of the new themes that actually skin the whole interface (not just leaving the OS's style), e.g. Breeze, and solves some of the problems I had with Phoenix earlier. I can't wait till 0.6... Your thoughts?... Doug Halamay I have to agree. I've replaced mozilla 1.2.1 with it since monday. There's a few performance issues though. The sidebar feels sluggish on my slow workstation at work (400 mhz pII) and the preference dialog is really slow when closing it (even on my amd xp 2200+ at home). Other than that, it does everything I need it to do. I do miss the mozilla style custom sidebars though. It would be nice if those could be added (only lose the tabbed interface mozilla uses). I just wanted everyone to know that I've updated RadialContext for Phoenix. I haven't finished testing, but it looks like everything, including the prefs panel, is working fine again. You can grab it at www.gamemakers.de/mozilla/radialcontext/ . Enjoy, Jens What happened to the name change? I understood that BIOS maker Phoenix had complained. This announcement says at the bottom: "Version 0.6, expected in January, will have a new name. And they really mean it this time. " It looks good so far. Only thing is that the taskbar icons are whacked (testing in Windows) You can download Grayrest's Iconpack ( http://iconpacks.mozdev.org/installation.html ). Just unzip it to your phoenix/chrome/ folder. - MXN http://mxn.netfirms.com/index.html Okay. I'll check those icons out. I think it should have some Mozilla/Phoenix icon for the taskbar by default, though. Filed this bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184298 0.5 seems to be a bit faster, but the GUI changes in the Windows build seem a little, erm, stinky? The background of the address bar, when it drops down, is grey; the status bar is now sunken in-- which isn't necessarily bad, but the top edge seems flat instead of beveled; the lock icon that appears when viewing HTTPS pages doesn't fit right; the task bar icon and the title bar icon is the default windows icon (easy to change, but it shouldn't be like that by default). I love Phoenix, but it's looks got a little sloppy in 0.5. :) It sort of reminds me of an ugly GTK layout. Is all this too critical? Or does this kind of feedback actually matter? The mouse cursor no longer changes to a pointy finger when you hoover over a link. Yep, same issue. Kind of annoying, but ok. I'm on a P4 2Ghz with 512MB memory, so my system should be fast enough...I think :) When saving the preferences, it stalls for a while - why is that? I wonder when support for Microsoft's Intellimouse back & forth buttons will trickle down to Netscape 7.0? It's getting to be a pain doing it "the old fashioned way". On both WinXP computers I've tried pheonix on when I switch themes it only changed the back and forward button, nothing else in the theme is changed??? that would be because most themes for Px intend to respect the underlying OS UI settings, whereas Orbit 3+1, ported from Moz, supplies it's own backgrounds above is not the problem... it's like the old Moz theme-switching bugs. you can get it to change all the buttons and anything else affected by the theme if you right click on the toolbar and hit "Customize toolbars" (or whatever that menu item actually says). I would expect restarting Phoenix to fix it too. I have found that applying themes in sequence does neat things. For example, Phusion, followed by Sky Pilot (By Kang for Mozilla) yields Phusion buttons abd Sky Pilot color schemes, for a very nice effect. When I did this in release 0.4, the location bar often failed to disply, but all works correctly in 0.5. Am I the only one who finds Phoenix to actually be slower? Perhaps it's because my laptop doesn't have all that much ram, but this release is completely unusably slow while those in the past have been great. Am I alone out there? For me, scrolling in the Bookmarks sidebar, typing in some textareas, and pulling down menus are slower than in previous releases. I'm guessing that this might be because of the Classic theme's new support for the Windows 9.x style. (Using Mozilla Phoenix 0.5, Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.2222, Classic theme.) - MXN http://mxn.netfirms.com/index.html Don't think we all not know what you do, also prove I clone flooded your irc server. I guess its all because of your nazism or some Jew developers personal religious hate. 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