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Program Information:
File Name: Mozilla Phoenix 0.5
File Size: 6.1 MB
Date Released: 07 December, 2002System Requirements:
- Windows 98
- Windows NT 4
- Windows 2000
- Windows Me
- Windows XP and above
- Please create a new profile for this version release
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What's New in Mozilla Phoenix 0.5: Version History of Mozilla Phoenix 0.5
You can now have multiple homepages that will open in tabs upon startup. To use this feature, you can either type in the addresses of the websites you want to use in the Homepage field of preferences (separate them using a "|"), or open the websites you want and then go to Preferences and click Use Current Pages. Please note that this feature is in ongoing development. For example, in the future you'll be able to select multiple bookmarks, and we still haven't decided what to do when you have multiple homepages and open a new window.
- Intellimouse 5-button support
You can now use your back and forward mouse buttons with Phoenix, thanks to the fix for bug 30431.
- Sidebar remembers its state across sessions
Phoenix will now remember if you had a sidebar open when you quit and will display it when you next start.
Many bugs with the download sidebar have been fixed, including a bunch of cases where downloads remained in the "current downloads" section forever, a bug that caused -1 to be displayed as the progress, and a bug that prevented the progress of downloads with foreign characters in their names from being updated. A download properties dialog has also been added (right click a finished download to access it), as well as some more prefs (one for download directory, one for opening the download sidebar when you begin a download).
The ability to open history items in tabs has been added, and the longstanding bug that history quicksearch was case sensitive has been fixed.
- Accessibility improvements
The arrow keys now toggle between focusable elements like buttons, just as on Windows.
- Size and memory reduction
Phoenix is lighter than ever before, coming in at 6.1 mb on Windows and 8.7 mb on Linux. And that isn't the end: we've knocked down our target to about 5mb on Windows by the time we reach 1.0, and probably somewhere between 7 and 8 on Linux. These are only guesstimates, please treat them as such. You should also see some decreased memory usage compared with 0.4 (but we still have a ways to go in that area).
0.5 is certainly our fastest release ever. You might especially notice a boost if you have a blank page (about:blank) as your homepage.
A number of crashes and hangs have been fixed in 0.5, including but not limited to bugs 173234, 178601, 183784, 180182, 181592, 181692 and 181463.
- Better Windows appearance
Phoenix users using the Classic (default) theme on Windows XP have long enjoyed a browser that blends in with their operating system. With 0.5, people on other flavors of Windows can experience that too thanks to the fix for bug 172751 (the OS now largely draws our widgets on Windows 9x, NT and 2K).
Phoenix theme development has really taken off. Thanks to all the theme authors! Most themes are available here.
But here are some of the most noteworthy. In 0.4, the menubar stayed disabled after customizing the toolbar under certain circumstances, effectively rendering that browser useless. This has been fixed in 0.5. Middle clicking in the content area to go to the address in the clipboard (Linux only) has also been fixed. Some annoying urlbar bugs (like this one) have been plugged, and a longstanding fullscreen bug that made the feature a pain to use is now dead. With 0.5, Phoenix works on Windows 95 again.
About: Mozilla Firebird is a free, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and hundreds of volunteers. Before its 1.0 release on November 9, 2004, Firefox had already gained acclaim from numerous media outlets, including Forbes [2] and the Wall Street Journal. With over 25 million downloads in the 99 days after its release, Firefox became one of the most used free and open source applications, especially among home users. On August 15, 2006, Firefox had its 80 millionth download, about 10 months after the release of version 1.0.
With Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation aims to develop a lightweight, fast, intuitive, and highly extensible standalone browser forked from the Navigator component of the Mozilla Application Suite. Firefox has become the foundation's main development focus (along with its Thunderbird email client), and has replaced the Mozilla Suite as their official main software release.
Firefox includes an integrated pop-up blocker, tabbed browsing, live bookmarks, support for open standards, and an extension mechanism for adding functionality. Although other browsers have introduced these features, Firefox became the first such browser to achieve wide adoption.
Firefox has attracted attention as an alternative to other browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer. As of April 2006, estimates of Firefox's usage share range from 8% to 10% of overall browser usage (see market adoption section), and is even higher on tech-oriented sites frequented by early adopters. Firefox has reduced Internet Explorer's dominant usage share, and may even reignite the browser wars.
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