Ten Things Phoenix is Better at Than Mozilla
Monday January 27th, 2003

rizzo sent us a link to an article at vbRad that gives one user's opinion of why Phoenix is better than Mozilla.

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some rubbish
submitted by TheK (user profile)
Monday January 27th, 2003 05:54:33 PM

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some things are in Mozilla, but are a bit different to do (leike going to adressbar oder save link)

Slightly tangental to the article
submitted by jgraham
Monday January 27th, 2003 06:09:27 PM

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Why is everyone obsessed with having small-as-possible icons (or putting everything all on one line). I can see why it might be appealing running at a low resolution, but on a larger display (anything above 880 by 600 really) the increase in viewport size seems a poor trade off for the smaller icon area and hence longer time to click (you need to be more precise, so it takes longer to position the mouse correctly). I can't help but wonder if this would also be a problem with having everything on a single bar (not least because this requires small icons so it doesn't look stupid).

I admit that I don't use full screen much, but it should offer fast browsing as all the buttons are really at the top of the screen, so you get mac-like 'fling the mouse and click' speeds, especially for 'back' which is by far the most common button.
Re: Slightly tangental to the article by ezh Mon, Jan 27, 2003
Nope. by ogiesen (profile) Tue, Jan 28, 2003
Re: Nope. by ogiesen (profile) Tue, Jan 28, 2003
Re: Nope. by jgraham Tue, Jan 28, 2003
Re: Offline mode by ogiesen (profile) Wed, Jan 29, 2003
You're right by leafdigital (profile) Tue, Jan 28, 2003
you sure? by niner (profile) Tue, Jan 28, 2003
Yeah, I'm sure. by leafdigital (profile) Tue, Jan 28, 2003
Use the context menus. by CaptnMArk Wed, Jan 29, 2003
Too bad context menus are broken by brianmurphy Wed, Jan 29, 2003
I like them by thelem (profile) Tue, Jan 28, 2003
Re: You're right by asa (profile) Tue, Jan 28, 2003
Re: Re: You're right by leafdigital (profile) Wed, Jan 29, 2003
True by wvw Tue, Jan 28, 2003
Re: True by ezh Tue, Jan 28, 2003
Re: Slightly tangental to the article by grayrest Tue, Jan 28, 2003

Mozilla/NN7.x will have custom toolbars
submitted by ezh
Monday January 27th, 2003 06:39:35 PM

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Read this document: (LINK)

Can't wait to see it working...
Re: Mozilla/NN7.x will have custom toolbars by mbokil Tue, Jan 28, 2003
Re: Re: Mozilla/NN7.x will have custom toolbars by ezh Tue, Jan 28, 2003
Re: Re: Re: whatever it was (the next Netscape) by Sander Tue, Jan 28, 2003
Re: Re: Re: Re: whatever it was (the next Netscape by ezh Tue, Jan 28, 2003
No Home Button by amutch Tue, Jan 28, 2003

Does this guy used mozilla?
submitted by ezh
Monday January 27th, 2003 07:01:33 PM

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nr. 4 - Change theme on the fly. This indeed currently really sux in Mozilla. :(

nr 6 - Popup windows disallowed as default. This is sux since when I pay thrue may online bank it opens a new window. How do I get that there is the blocking turned on by default? I would like, I'll blosk it thrue pref.

nr. 7 - Popup windows allow-lists It is in Mozilla (and in NN7.01)

nr. 9 - Non-cluttered status bar I do not use it and really do not care it is there, but someone find it very usefull...

nr. 10 - Forms intellisense, a la IE. Yep, this is really needed in mozilla/nn (heard many complains from ex-ie users, for some this holds them to move from ie away. Netscape, do you hear?).

nr. 11 - favicon in bookmark. A greate and wanted one, but not really a blocker.

nr. 12 - Alt-D takes you to the address bar. Just give it a try in mozilla... Does not work with every locale and this sucks since I use cyrillic at the 75% of surfing. :(
Re: Does this guy used mozilla? by GAThrawn Mon, Jan 27, 2003
Re: Re: Does this guy used mozilla? by ezh Mon, Jan 27, 2003
Re: Alt+D by Tar Wed, Jan 29, 2003
Re: Does this guy used mozilla? by dutch Mon, Jan 27, 2003
Re: Re: Does this guy used mozilla? by ezh Mon, Jan 27, 2003

The real reason why I use Phoenix
submitted by boily
Monday January 27th, 2003 08:12:20 PM

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Because my internet connexion is slow (56kbps) and I wanted the fastest browser to download. And, by the way, I wanted the best browser ever.
Re: The real reason why I use Phoenix by Hendikins Tue, Jan 28, 2003
Re: Re: The real reason why I use Phoenix by grayrest Tue, Jan 28, 2003
Re: Re: Re: The real reason why I use Phoenix by Hendikins Tue, Jan 28, 2003

one more thing
submitted by morg (user profile)
Monday January 27th, 2003 08:42:25 PM

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One more reason. Bookmarks don't totally suck.

I use Phoenix 0.5 as my main browser. I'm only going back to Mozilla once it is possible to use Bookmarks Manager in Mozilla without all the data loss.
Re: one more thing by CatamountJck Tue, Jan 28, 2003
Re: one more thing by pepejeria Tue, Jan 28, 2003

Number 11
submitted by ed_welch
Tuesday January 28th, 2003 04:11:59 AM

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"When you place something on the bookmark toolbar, it remembers the favicon." ...but not necessarily with the correct favicon! and it doesn't remember it permently.

CTRL-L
submitted by sinchi
Tuesday January 28th, 2003 10:58:12 AM

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>I use CTRL-L, but this need my hand off the mouse...

Use right CTRL ;)

Customizable toolbars is the only better thing
submitted by oliversl
Tuesday January 28th, 2003 02:07:45 PM

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Phoenix has many things (better) than Mozilla, but if I should choose only 1 and only 1 thing that Phoenix is better than Mozilla, I would choose the Customizable Toolbars.

I Dun Totally Agree
submitted by gigsvoo
Tuesday January 28th, 2003 08:57:32 PM

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Both Mozilla and Phoenix using Gecko? It is is rely on the bottom quality thing, should not only see the surface features... IE users will laugh at us.

Furthermore why wouldn't Mozilla try to fix the lousy printing problem? Look at IE with the great printing problem...

Personally I use Mozilla running in Linux. I dispute MS software on their vulnerable and tired to get sick when have to lock down my box to keep virii and hackers out of the yard. If Mozilla does a good enhancement think printing support first... there are more important thing to fix rather than doing some eye candy stuff.

Re: I Dun Totally Agree by asa (profile) Wed, Jan 29, 2003

Id love to switch..
submitted by ph1nn
Tuesday January 28th, 2003 10:38:50 PM

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I'd love to switch from Mozillla to Pheonix but what would i use for Email? I dont know a better program than mozilla mail
Re: Id love to switch.. by metalcrypt Wed, Jan 29, 2003
And where's the news reader? Another $35? by skeeter (profile) Wed, Jan 29, 2003
Re: And where's the news reader? Another $35? by sconest (profile) Thu, Jan 30, 2003
Re: Re: And where's the news reader? Another $35? by sconest (profile) Thu, Jan 30, 2003
Re: Id love to switch.. by asa (profile) Thu, Jan 30, 2003

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