Lumpish Scholar's Journal: Phoenix finds another fan

I installed Phoenix (summary: lightweight browser-only version of Mozilla), and set up bookmarks so I can open various collections of my favorite web comics in multiple tabs of one window. I used to take about ten minutes or so to read forty comics. I just read fifty-two comics in under eight minutes. Better still, I have the comics grouped in part by publication schedule; today being Tuesday, I didn't bother to read the MWF-only comics.

Even without its special features, I swear Phoenix is faster than IE. Unlike Mozilla (confession: the last version I loaded was 0.99), I can navigate bookmarks via the keyboard. The cookie management took a minute to get used to (I usually delete them manually in IE then manually add sites to the restricted zone), but works great once I caught on. I haven't seen a popup since I started using it! I just wish I could get Googlebar working with it.

I'm sold.

Personal favorite feature.

[Louis_Wu]

I can install it at work. My work machine is an IBM RS6000 workstation with AIX unix running CDE, and Boeing uses an emulator (X to PC) to give us Win2K - which is run off of a server. I was able to put Phoenix in one folder, without dropping files in directories I don't have permissions for. I can't install Mozilla because it wants to litter files everywhere, but I can install Phoenix.

This might not seem like a big deal until I tell you that the standard browser is Netscape 4.7, with IE5 available as well. Netscape 4? No tabs, bad CSS support, and no tabs. Phoenix is W3C compliant and fast - and has tabs. Phoenix rocks.

Re:Personal favorite feature.

[Lumpish Scholar]

I was able to put Phoenix in one folder, without dropping files in directories I don't have permissions for. I can't install Mozilla because it wants to litter files everywhere...

Phoenix 0.5 creates %WINDIR%\.jpi_cache\ and %WINDIR%\Application Data\Phoenix\ directories. (I'd like to control at least the former; I have a "temp" partition, not too small, not too big, and easy to defragment.)