Why the excitement?
Why the excitement?
Posted May 19, 2003 0:35 UTC (Mon) by kdebisschop (guest, #1158)In reply to: Why the excitement? by alspnost
Parent article: Mozilla Firebird 0.6 released
From http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap/phoenix-advantages.html
Better performance
In my testing, Phoenix has a 30-40% startup improvement over Mozilla/Netscape and a 40-50% new window improvement over Mozilla/Netscape.
Smaller download size, disk footprint and memory usage
Phoenix is nearly half the download size of Mozilla (6MB download compared to 11MB for windows) and it continues to shrink while Mozilla gets bigger.
Phoenix is about half the size on disk as Mozilla (about 12.4MB on disk compared to 24MB for Mozilla.) As Phoenix developers continue to remove unused or unwanted code this number will continue to improve.
Phoenix also takes up about 15% less RAM than Mozilla (18MB runtime for Phoenix compared to 21MB for Moz on windows.)Granted, there is a difference between goal and reality. But in my experience, they've made good strides so far. Maybe it's is not yet as fast as IE. But it's fast enough that I no longer spend my time worrying about the comparison
Plus, with Xft and the leaner interface, I just like the way it looks. Of course YMMV, but that's a pretty good thumbnail of why I am excited.