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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN">
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<html lang="en-GB-hixie">
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<head>
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<title>Phoenix</title>
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</head>
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<body>
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<h1>Phoenix</h1>
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<p><span class="LXRLONGDESC">This project is a redesign of the
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Mozilla browser component, similar to Galeon, K-Meleon and Chimera,
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but written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be
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cross-platform.</span></p>
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<h2>Principles, Strategy, Tactics, and Concrete Design Decisions</h2>
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<ol>
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<li>CVS access is restricted to a very small team. We'll grow as
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needed, based on reputation and meritorious hacks.</li>
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<li>This will be a single process for the browser only. Mail
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clients, web editors, etc, will be out-of-process. Hooks for other
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apps will be provided eventually, although that is not an immediate
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goal.</li>
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<li>No profile manager UI on startup, although you can still select
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multiple profiles from the command line.</li>
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<li>The default theme will be based on Classic, utilizing nsITheme
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to respects the system look and feel. Phoenix will not use the old
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and stale Communicator icons. Additional themes will be supported
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but will not be part of Phoenix.</li>
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<li>The toolbar(s) will be configurable. That includes moving the
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location bar where the user wants it (not just splitting it so it
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takes a whole toolbar width).</li>
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<li>The personal toolbar is the personal toolbar, not the
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whorebar.</li>
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<li>All wallet-like functionality will be rewritten from
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scratch.</li>
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<li>We will have a sidebar, but it may work differently from
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Mozilla's current one.</li>
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<li>There won't be 239 access points for Search and for
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Bookmarks!</li>
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<li>We may drop the throbber.</li>
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<li>The interface will not be "geeky" nor will it have a
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"hacker-focus". Nor will it be "minimal". The idea is to design the
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best web browser for most people. (This doesn't mean every feature
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has to be enabled by default.)</li>
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</ol>
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<h2>Notes</h2>
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<p>We won't be redesigning the editor widget(s) or other parts of
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Gecko as part of this project.</p>
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<p>We plan to move this app to the
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<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/embedding/MRE.html">MRE</a>
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or the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/xre.html">XRE</a>
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but those projects are not ready for us so we have not started that
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work yet.</p>
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<h2>FAQ</h2>
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<h3>Q1. Why?</h3>
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<p>Some of us want to have fun and build an excellent, user-friendly
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browser without the constraints (such as unnecessary features,
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compatibility, marketing requirements, month long discussions, etc.)
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that the current browser development requires.</p>
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<p>Others of us are simply using this as a prototype to demonstrate
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possible optimizations to the trunk, such as stripping overlays or
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separating the application into separate processes instead of
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running one monolithic suite.</p>
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<h3>Q2. Why only a small team?</h3>
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<p>The size of the team working on the trunk is one of the many
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reasons that development on the trunk is so slow. We feel that
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fewer dependencies (no marketing constraints), faster innovation (no
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UI committees), and more freedom to experiment (no backwards
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compatibility requirements) will lead to a better end product.</p>
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<h3>Q3. Where do I file bugs on this?</h3>
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<p>We're still chopping with strong bursts and broad strokes. There's
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plenty that's obviously broken and we don't need bugs on that. If you
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find a bug (a feature request is not a bug) and you're sure that it's
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specific to Phoenix (not present in Mozilla) and you've read all of the
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existing Phoenix bugs well enough to know that it's not already reported
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then feel free report it on the Phoenix product in Bugzilla. </p>
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<h3>Q4: Why are you guys wasting time making a FAQ?</h3>
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<p>Because we would waste tons of time answering these questions, if
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there were no FAQ.</p>
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<h3>Q6: So to whom do I send patches?</h3>
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<p>We're not quite ready for this stage.</p>
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<h3>Q7: How do I get involved?</h3>
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<p>By invitation. This is a meritocracy -- those who gain the respect of
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those in the group will be invited to join the group. See Q6.</p>
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<h3>Q8: What about OS X?</h3>
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<p>Chimera is the top gecko-based browser for OS X. We do not intend
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to compete on that platform.</p>
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<h2>Getting the Source</h2>
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<ol>
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<li>Go to the root of your mozilla tree.</li>
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<li><kbd>cvs up -Pd browser and toolkit</kbd></li>
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</ol>
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<h2>Building mozilla/browser </h2>
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<h3>UNIX, Windows (gmake), Mac (mach-o)</h3>
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<ol>
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<li>Ensure that MOZ_PHOENIX is set to 1 in your .mozconfig file. A good .mozconfig file is shown below:<br>
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<br>
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<code>
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export MOZ_PHOENIX=1<br>
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mk_add_options MOZ_PHOENIX=1<br>
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ac_add_options --enable-crypto<br>
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ac_add_options --disable-tests<br>
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ac_add_options --disable-debug<br>
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ac_add_options --disable-mailnews<br>
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ac_add_options --disable-composer<br>
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ac_add_options --enable-optimize=-O2<br>
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<br>
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</code>
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<li>Run the mozbrowser executable that is left in dist/bin</li>
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</ol>
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<h2>Mac (CodeWarrior)</h2>
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<p>This platform is currently not supported.</p>
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</body>
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</html>
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