Phoenix Browser is amazing

[Howard]

I love O7, but the damned thing won't play Flash movies! ARHRDIHG!

 

[CraigRT]

I'll use anything but Netscape.
Opera 7 or Mozilla.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: BD2003
Its too sloooow. Takes up way too much memory too.

Crazy browser is much better.

 

[HendrixFan]

I used Mozilla and switched to Phoenix. I havent looked back since. It loads very quickly, pages render fast, and uses very little RAM. Ive got all the plugins working properly, and a nice OS X theme on it. Its easy to customize the toolbars too!

 

[777php]

I've been using Opera for a long time now and I love it. Every time I usa a public computer and I'm surfing the web I always accidentally use the mouse gestures. .
I'm waiting for more skins to appear for Opera 7.

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

I installed phoenix on the recommendation of this thread. I like it because it's similar to NS 7 that I use on my linux box at work. I was getting sick of IE taking up close to 90mb of ram to open the 10 or so browswer windows I have open at a time, phoenix is using 39.4 right now for 10 browsers and they're all tabbed in one window, which is very easy to navigate between them all.

I have found a couple of bugs, when I print previewed, it got stuck and I had to kill it via the Task Manager. I installed a couple of Extensions, and I had to do it twice because they didn't take, same with some skins, I downloaded 5 and only 1 actually registered. The Extensions, I understand are most likely the guys who came up with tme, it's their code that is buggy. There has been one or two other times that I have had to kill it b/c it did something screwy.

Overall, It's okay, I'm not going to mess myself like some people in the thread I am probably going to stick with it b/c of the tabbed browsing and the memory consumption, but I'll upgrade when they have more stable releases.

 

[wyvrn]

It is fast and small. But it doesn't seem to handle java as well as IE.

 

[NokiaDude]

Opera 7.01 is better . . .

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

I have no reason to use it over mozilla..

 

[PCMarine]

Internet Explorer is fine.

 

[LiekOMG]

Keep in mind that Phoenix is beta - VERY beta. The 0.5 milestone release is getting old already and has a ton of bugs - very slow, and a huge memory leak. The nightly builds can either be completly unusable due to bugs, but there are a few that are really good. If you are considering trying Phoenix and really seeing what its like, I suggest the 01/29/03 build. It has no major bugs that i'm aware of. Its the build I use.

 

[Analog]

thanks.

 

[Spikey217]

Has anyone sucessfully installed Shockwave on Phoenix?

 

[PoPPeR]

IE is so integrated into Windows that it was always my browser of choice. I liked opera for awhile, but IE's integration just makes it seem better to me. I guess i could be a witness for companies suing microsoft for monopoly cuz basically their integration of IE into their OS makes it my browser of choice

 

[GeneValgene]

Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Opera 7.01 is better . . .

did they bring back the option of opening links in new windows? i use 6.05 right now. i tried the 7beta a few months ago and couldn't stand the fact that you can't open new windows.

 

[me4get]

I have Shockwave set up in Phoenix successfully. All I did was set it up in Mozilla first, the copied the plugins folder to Phoenix

 

[dighn]

autorefresher toolbar addon for ie

 

[KeyserSoze]

Ok, this is another pointless bump, but I'm in love with Phoenix, I'm telling you.

People, give it a shot if you haven't, it's free, what you got to lose???

You'll thank me later.



KeyserSoze

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

I just installed it yesterday, used it for a while, and now I'm back with mozilla.

 

[KeyserSoze]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
I just installed it yesterday, used it for a while, and now I'm back with mozilla.

Crap, we lost one. We didn't need YOU anyways!




KeyserSoze

 

[Kev]

I tried to install this a few days ago on my NT4 workstation and it won't start up...

 

[zCypher]

how do you auto-reload? I don't see it anywhere.

 

[ElFenix]

tring it now... not bad... says its using 21 megs but i'll bet most of that is this forum.

now if only i could find some way to boot IE out of residency.

 

[datalink7]

Opera 7 for me!

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

After using it for a couple of weeks, here's my review:

mine doesn't seem to like when I get a PM here, crashes pretty often either javascript or just the exe.
It has a memory leak somewhere. The page file usage grows substantially if I leave the browser open over night.
I have several extensions that I have downloaded. They randomly will be uninstalled, and I have to redownload them.
ESPN.com does not work at all now. The front page loads, but I cannot click any links.
When I try to view the properties of an images, It tries to launch a new window and attempts to open a .xsi file.

It's okay for right now, even with the problems. I'm thinking about downloading crazy browser, which I have heard cuts some of the chaff out of ie and gives added functionality. Probably wont happen for a while, as i'm rather lazy about a change like that.