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Posted by pudge from the wednesday-is-upgrade-spaghetti-night dept.
An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine is reporting that version 0.6 of Chimera, the Mozilla-based browser for Mac OS X, has been released, packed full of fun new stuff for MacBeards to play with. The Chimera homepage has a lovely shiney globe on it and lets you download the new release." etdebruin writes "Head on over to mactopia to find the 10.1.2 Office X update from Microsoft released today."
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  • new terminology? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Hadlock ( 143607 ) on Thursday November 07, 2002 @12:57AM (#4614507) Homepage Journal
    full of fun new stuff for MacBeards to play with.

    eh? what's a MacBeard? open source mac coders?

  • Requires Flash upgrade (Score:3, Informative)

    by amichalo ( 132545 ) on Thursday November 07, 2002 @01:28AM (#4614684)
    The install notes indicate that you will have to upgrade to Flash 6 Beta.

    best of all, there is now an option to turn off JavaScript's Pop-up feature - Wehew!

  • You can easily get the latest chimera build... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by sc00p18 ( 536811 ) on Thursday November 07, 2002 @03:18AM (#4615028)

    ...using a nice applescript application called Chimera Knight. [mac.com] Just thought some people might like to know that's out there.
  • I tried out Chimera 0.6 yesterday. It has serious performance issues on my iBook 600/640. As far as I can see only one page can be loaded at a time, making the browser useless while loading tabs in the background. When scrolling Chimera hangs for a split second every 1/4 page or so. After about 5 minutes of browsing, Chimera crashed.

    I'll stick with Mozilla for now. Its quicker, and it does not crash.
    • Maybe your configuration is wrong. On my iBook 500, the performance is just so much better than mozilla, especially for the UI that is very responsive. There are still some bugs and the side bar is not very cool but 0.5 and 0.6 are working great. Why not try to stick to nightly builds. I predict that chimera will be a great small browser by 1.0. Mozilla is great too but has too many features for my browsing needs.

    • Try the nightly builds... (Score:3, Informative)

      by ZxCv ( 6138 )
      There's a great program called ChimeraKnight that will backup your current Chimera, download the current nightly build and unpack and install it for you, all automagically. I run it every couple days or so, and while I used to have the same speed and stability complaints about Chimera, it only gets better day after day. In fact, I've had it crash only once in the past week. And its speed (startup, navigation) is noticeably better these days over Mozilla, especially on my iBook 600/640. Up until a little over a week ago, I was using Mozilla instead of Chimera, but the way things are going for Chimera now, I doubt I'll ever go back to Mozilla.
    • Something's bust in your machine. I have less ram and Chimera 0.6 flies along. I have seven tabs open right now, plus a couple of other apps and I have no trouble.

      Multiple page loading is no problem either. I can command+shift click on all the slashdot articles on the front page one after the other and have them open in background tabs all at once without it slowing up.

  • Phoenix for Mac OS X (Score:5, Interesting)

    by X_Caffeine ( 451624 ) on Thursday November 07, 2002 @06:48AM (#4615539)
    While you're checking Chimera out, give Phoenix for OS X a try. This is an UN-official port of the Phoenix browser, which was created to accomplish more-or-less the same thing on Win and Linux that Chimera does.

    The Phoenix group said that they weren't going to pursue an OS X version because the Chimera group has that covered for Mac users... but I gotta tell you, this "experiment" is already much faster than Chimera (on a G3 400mhz 300mb RAM, the differences are very pronounced; on a faster machine, possibly not so much).

    • link... (Score:3, Informative)

      by X_Caffeine ( 451624 )
      sorry... experimental Phoenix [kmgerich.com] for OS X. p.s. I forgot to mention, it also has a Google searchbar!
      • Thanks for the link! I'm using Phoenix now. I love the fact that cut and paste etc. work as they're suppose to. The only browser on MacOS X that does, to my knowledge at least. If Phoenix had spell checking like OmniWeb -- well then -- NIRVANA!
    • Downloading it now. I've been very dissapointed with both the instability and slowness of Chimera. It crashes all the time on me, and is at least as sluggish as Mozilla for OS X, which is too slow, so I'm mostly using OmniWeb. I use Phoenix on all my other machines (Windows, x86 Linux, and PPC Linux) and I couldn't be happier with it. Great, fast browser. Hopefully Phoenix-on-OSX will gain some momentum, or they'll fix the problems that seem to be continually plaguing Chimera so that it will be somewhat usable.
  • Does anyone else find it strange that this Moz variant, which is browser-only, they named Chimera? One would think that the multi-headed beast would be the browser-email-composer-PIM drek that Netscape usually is. Phoenix is much more appropriate (born again).

    Hey, while we're on it, why does everyone call it Chimera except for Chimera itself? The app identifies itself as Navigator, in icon and splash. Strange.

    • Re:Strange naming (Score:2, Interesting)

      by sparkleytone ( 561198 )
      Chimera was originally Chim-Chim on Mozilla's pages. It is basically a project to continue with what was then the Cocoazilla project. Up until .2 it was called Chimera in all of its forms, but since .2 was released it has been called Navigator in its browser form. I believe that Chimera basically refers to the entire project, where the browser UI is being called the Navigator. Also, there have been hints, even by the original creator himself (Dave Hyatt), that Netscape may end up adopting this as the Netscape product for OS X. But that would be much further down the line. Think about it...Netscape scraps current browsers and uses Chimera Phoenix to cover three platforms with great browsers.

      Maybe its a little optimistic tho, being that AOL is running things.
  • Anyone else notice that the office update looks like it's not actually updating anything? Looks to me like it's just an installer for all the previous updates combined with a new version number.

    I mean, nice if you haven't updated... but if you did... then I guess this won't do anything for ya. Well, nothing besides the awesome *.2 instead of that ghetto *.1 crap.

    Actually, what a way to cover up the fact that you've been doing nothing at work all day but drinking and playing .

    "We need that update by Thursday!"
    "Oh snap! Wait, I got an idea..."
  • Is slashdot going to become the Mac's freshmeat?

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