- Jan 4, 2001
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It's kinda nice, but annoying like heck. I'm definately going back to IE.
I personaly don't think its ready for prime time yet and heres why.
No idea why, but it keeps trying to take over as default browser. Even though its been told several times not too. In the preferences its not the defaulf MIME viewer for anything, but yet it takes over.
I miss my googlebar. The googlebar extension is lacking... The buttons for things like find in this site or the page rank are missing. Besides that, it doesnt show up in the extension list so can't be removed, which is kinda annoying, and probaly more attributable to blame google since I think they were the creaters.
Address bar bug. Start typing in the address bar, and some crap pops up at the top right below my buttons. Its as if its trying to auto fill in the url for me, but doesnt know where the address bar is. I'll get a screenshot of this soon. Ugly and annoying as hell.
Its not exactly light on the memory. Typicaly just browsing around, it takes about 30 mb just for having one window open. When going to sites to play games like pogo.com jumps to over 50mb.
Clicking on a .jpg link is annoying. I like the way IE just opens it in a new window. Phoenix opens a new phoenix window first, than asks what I would like to do with the file. Choosing phoenix as the program to open it with, and unchecking teh box to ask me everytime opens it, but as soon as I click another .jpg link it repeats. Clicking advanced and doing the same thing has the same result. HELLLO?!?? Why ask me if you dont listen? Besides, the advanced box is pretty redundant duh....
Themes are nice. Dont remember if mozilla supported that. Never was used to tabbed browsing with mozilla. The only thing I really like as a feature over IE are the user profiles. For instance, 1 profile for proxy, 1 for normal surfing etc.
Loading a phoenix window isnt exactly faster than an IE window, but the 6mb download was a nice change.
These are just my opinion. Flame if you must, but if its just a fanboy, look i'm so trendy opinion than well... If you have fixes/solutions to the above go ahead, post them and change my mind.
Edit: Webpage loading did feel very fast... Does phoenix use more than 2 simultaneous http connections to the server?
Edit2: Erg. its getting worse! Just tried a mpg. Does the same annoying thing of opening a new window and leaving it open for no reason. Selected windows media player, unchecked box for ask me everytime. Watched the move, closed WMP, and the extra window. Clicked link again, no new window thankfully, but opened in WINAMP. Wonderfullly smart. Besides that, after selecting the program to use the first time, returning to that popup box of what to do, the bottom of the content in the box is cut off.
Mozilla felt much more polished. Phoenix feels like a lite version that was just stripped too much to be usefull.
I personaly don't think its ready for prime time yet and heres why.
No idea why, but it keeps trying to take over as default browser. Even though its been told several times not too. In the preferences its not the defaulf MIME viewer for anything, but yet it takes over.
I miss my googlebar. The googlebar extension is lacking... The buttons for things like find in this site or the page rank are missing. Besides that, it doesnt show up in the extension list so can't be removed, which is kinda annoying, and probaly more attributable to blame google since I think they were the creaters.
Address bar bug. Start typing in the address bar, and some crap pops up at the top right below my buttons. Its as if its trying to auto fill in the url for me, but doesnt know where the address bar is. I'll get a screenshot of this soon. Ugly and annoying as hell.
Its not exactly light on the memory. Typicaly just browsing around, it takes about 30 mb just for having one window open. When going to sites to play games like pogo.com jumps to over 50mb.
Clicking on a .jpg link is annoying. I like the way IE just opens it in a new window. Phoenix opens a new phoenix window first, than asks what I would like to do with the file. Choosing phoenix as the program to open it with, and unchecking teh box to ask me everytime opens it, but as soon as I click another .jpg link it repeats. Clicking advanced and doing the same thing has the same result. HELLLO?!?? Why ask me if you dont listen? Besides, the advanced box is pretty redundant duh....
Themes are nice. Dont remember if mozilla supported that. Never was used to tabbed browsing with mozilla. The only thing I really like as a feature over IE are the user profiles. For instance, 1 profile for proxy, 1 for normal surfing etc.
Loading a phoenix window isnt exactly faster than an IE window, but the 6mb download was a nice change.
These are just my opinion. Flame if you must, but if its just a fanboy, look i'm so trendy opinion than well... If you have fixes/solutions to the above go ahead, post them and change my mind.
Edit: Webpage loading did feel very fast... Does phoenix use more than 2 simultaneous http connections to the server?
Edit2: Erg. its getting worse! Just tried a mpg. Does the same annoying thing of opening a new window and leaving it open for no reason. Selected windows media player, unchecked box for ask me everytime. Watched the move, closed WMP, and the extra window. Clicked link again, no new window thankfully, but opened in WINAMP. Wonderfullly smart. Besides that, after selecting the program to use the first time, returning to that popup box of what to do, the bottom of the content in the box is cut off.
Mozilla felt much more polished. Phoenix feels like a lite version that was just stripped too much to be usefull.