What's New:
A few of the features new to this release include:
* Improvements to pop-up blocking
It is now easier to add sites to the pop-up whitelist and some bugs
in the 0.3 whitelisting display have been fixed. You can add sites to
the whitelist by clicking on the "i" icon in the lower left of the
browser window for sites with blocked pop-ups or you can add sites in
the pop-up preferences panel.
* Improvements to toolbar customization
It is now possible to customize the menubar in addition to the
navigation and bookmark toolbars. This makes it possible to add all of
your items to a single toolbar freeing up valuable web page real
estate.
* Improvements to tabbed browsing and shortcut keys
Phoenix developers have been working to improve basic user tasks like
opening links and loading addresses. A few things that you will find
new and improved in 0.4 are: ctrl+[1-0] will switch between your first
10 tabs. ctrl+click opens a link in a new background tab (you can set
that in preferences to default to a foreground tab) and
ctrl+shift+click will toggle the forground/background
preference. shift+click opens a link in a new window and alt+click
saves link.
* Type ahead find returns
Type ahead find allows a user to start typing to navigate directly to
a link containing that text. To find text that is not linked just
preface your typing with a / character.
* Addressbar gets smarter
alt+d now focuses the address field. Typing a search term (or terms)
in the addressbar and hitting enter will now take you directly to the
top hit on Google rather than the Google search results page and
ctrl+enter in the address field adds a www. and .com to your address.
* Bug fixes
Some people seem concerned that Phoenix developers are just adding
feature after feature without fixing bugs. While it's true that
through 0.4 they've been doing a lot of heavy lifting, redesign and
feature work, the developers are also wrapping up that big feature
push and moving into more of a cleanup and bugfix mode.
* Themes!
Thanks to several theme authors and chris neale at mozdev.org you can
now get themes for Phoenix. As with any 3rd party add-ons, please
don't report bugs with themes to Phoenix. Report your problems (and
your praise) to the theme developers or the Phoenix Skins
forum. Themes available at the time of the 0.4 release include
Bluestreak, Luna, Orbit 3+1, Pinball, and Qute.
Phoenix is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to Galeon,
K-Meleon and Chimera, but written using the XUL user interface language
and designed to be cross-platform.
Phoenix is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to Galeon,
K-Meleon and Chimera, but written using the XUL user interface language
and designed to be cross-platform.
This is a Linux binary package for Linux and NetBSD/i386.
