Okay, this is a geek entry, I admit. But, when the boys and girls with the Phoenix project announced the new version of their Mozilla-based browser, I felt compelled to post a blog entry. This is definitely a must-have if you consider yourself a power user when it comes to the web–or even if you are just looking for an alternative to Internet Explorer (with which I’ve been having some issues).

Phoenix is lighter than ever before, coming in at 6.1 mb on Windows and 8.7 mb on Linux. And that isn’t the end: we’ve knocked down our target to about 5mb on Windows by the time we reach 1.0, and probably somewhere between 7 and 8 on Linux. These are only guesstimates, please treat them as such. You should also see some decreased memory usage compared with 0.4 (but we still have a ways to go in that area).

You’ve got to love that.