The v0.5 Naples rev of the Phoenix browser is released. If you are upgrading pay very careful attention to the release notes:
PLEASE NOTE: You should create a new profile for Phoenix 0.5. To create a new profile, start Phoenix by running phoenix.exe -ProfileManager and click on the "Create Profile" button. If you don't want to delete your old profile and are willing to incur the risk of new bugs, you should at least delete your profile's downloads.rdf file. You must also delete your old Phoenix directory rather than just overwriting the files there. Not doing so WILL result in problems and you should not file any bugs on Phoenix unless you've first done a clean install and tested on a new profile. As Phoenix stabilizes more this will not be necessary but until then these steps are absolutely necessary.
The release notes page above has links to downloadable files for Windows and Linux. Also, Mozillazine points to another location to download them.
What I do right after installing and starting Phoenix for the first time: Choose View | Toolbars | Customize. Then drag the Go button up to the right of the URL control. This gives you the Go button that all browsers normally have. Then click Done.
The next thing to do is to get a better theme for the appearance of Phoenix. You can choose to directly install the theme. Once it has completed you need to go into Tools | Preferences | Themes and Extensions. Your new theme should show up on the list. Choose it and click Okay and Phoenix should change to that theme. Mozilla has to be restarted to make a new theme take effect but with Phoenix it happens instantly. If you download a theme as a Jar and the choice you use does not install it into your browser then you can use this form to automate the install process.
Note that you can import Mozilla bookmarks from the bookmarks.html file in the bookmarks manager. Or you can copy the Mozila (or Netscape) bookmarks.html file on top of the bookmarks.html for the Phoenix profile. Look for these files in your OS install drive on Windows.
Note that the Phoenix name is going to be changed. It is surprising to me that they released v0.5 without first changing the name.
Update: Anyone know any OS/2 users? I know they exist because I see them occasionally in my Parapundit.com site web logs. Haven't seen an OS/2 entry on TechiePundit for a while though. But get this: There is now an OS/2 Phoenix build downloadable from the release notes page at the top of this post (it wasn't on that page originally). If anyone knows any rare endangered species OS/2 users please tell them to go download the build for Phoenix v0.5. It would be nice if whoever is taking the time to make OS/2 builds would get to have his builds used by real OS/2 users.
Posted by Randall Parker at December 08, 2002 02:00 PMLet it go, Randall. It's gone. Let OS/2 rest in peace.
Really effective, simple and fine, I love it.
Posted by: Paul Forbes on April 22, 2003 01:42 PM