The October 2 Mozilla Status Update provides a good, quick overview of all that’s going on in the Mozilla world. It mentions the quick progress of Phoenix, that the spellchecker may be coming to Mozilla soon, and the release of IBM Web Browser 2.0 for OS/2.
Month: October 2002
Phoenix Phun
Doug Turner’s pictures of Phoenix Evolution is especially funny now that Asa has released a screen shot of his Phoenix customization.
Phoenix 0.2 is out
It’s looking really, really good. The only changes I noticed from the previous build I commented on is that the sidebar now has a close button and the scripts and tabbed browsing preferences are now back. Go download it.
Mike Shaver writes what I’ve been thinking: “I guess it’s a little embarrassing that a handful of hackers can produce better autocomplete, better toolbar management, and much better performance than that found in the much more heavily attended Mozilla CVS tree. But we’ve always known that small, sharp teams are vastly more productive than those diluted with a few dozen mediocre-or-worse additions, so it’s certainly not surprising.”
I’ve switched from Mozilla to Phoenix as my primary browser (mostly to test it out) and miss a few things. Type ahead find which was working in previous Phoenix nightlies is now broken. Image blocking is also missing. Look for both in 0.3. I can’t wait to be able to add back some of the Mozilla extensions. I most miss having chatzilla a click of a bookmark away.