Lasse Penttinen
1 Nov 2002 2:29
Many of you know the Mozilla web client software, an open-source solution that is able to replace and partially outperform Microsoft’s Internet Explorer & Outlook express combo. As Mozilla approaches version 1.2, there are interesting side projects launched, based on the Mozilla core.
Project Phoenix is based on the Mozilla web browser component. But as Mozilla is kinda large and heavy piece of software, the Phoenix project aims to make a more compact and highly optimised browser-only software. Their approach is therefore similar to Galeon (Linux), Chimera (Mac) or K-Meleon (Win32). The Phoenix project has a roadmap of releases being smaller in filesize milestone after milestone.
The Phoenix project has been very busy and the new 0.4 version of Phoenix is one slick web browser. Very good if you need a secondary browser, or if you use Mozilla browser but don’t need it’s other features (email, irc, composer). Faster and smaller than the original Mozilla of course, with all Mozilla benefits like tabbed browsing, which is something you can’t live without as you get used to it.
There is also coming up the Minotaur project which aims to do the same for Mozilla Mail & News, but the project hasn’t yet released any downloadable version
The Phoenix Project