The Long Road

03/20/2003 Archived Entry: "Phoenix"

Had a CS programming assignment due today at 6 and a Stats Test at 5. Such a stressful day, Stats is really scaring me, today's test made me feel like I should start studying for it now, or have a repeat of Stats 230! I pretty much just spent all my time this week on the CS assignement and forwent studying for stats except for that 60 mins right before the quiz. I think CS students would sacrifice any class for a CS assignment. Its probably a little like that for other majors too, but I wouldn't know.

I know that most people use Internet Explorer, but I want to suggest to everyone an alternative. I use Phoenix. It's pretty much like IE except it has some really nice extra features. The one that I like the most is the ability to have 'tabs'. Basically, you get to open as many web pages as you want inside one window and you go through them using tabs like Excel worksheets. Phoenix also block all pop-up windows and you get a neat feature called 'mouse guestures". Download it from here. You don't even have to install it, just download, unzip, and run.

You will have to play with the settings a little to make it look more familiar, and export your links from I.E to Phoenix, but once you've done all that I think that it will be most worth it.

Replies: 3 comments

I tried it, but it crashed periodically and yielded other problems. I had tried Opera previous to it and had about the same. Really, other than tabs which are the most useful webbrowser feature IE doesn't have, I'm totally fine with IE. Besides, it's already on my system (weather I use it or not), it's stable and it displays pages well!

Posted by Romer @ 03/21/2003 04:44 PM EST

I think that the few bugs that it has are well worth it for the use of tabs. Really, the new version that I just downloaded has many fewer bugs.

Posted by Rayne @ 03/23/2003 04:35 PM EST

my comments is useful, there is still no mechanism for letting me know when someone has responded to a comment that I have made. If the weblog in question is one you visit frequently, and especially if the weblog has enabled some sort of Recent Comments link, then perhaps you will be visually cued when a response has been made to your comment, but on a busy weblog that just isn't going to happen.

Posted by Phentermine @ 01/11/2005 05:05 AM EST