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Chimera 0.2 Available for Download

Posted by pudge on from the batman-now-you-face-a-true-chimera dept.

Aqua OS X writes "Chimera, the new Gecko-based Cocoa Mac OS X browser, has just reached version 0.2. It is available for download and it includes native Quartz rendering, new icons, expanded menus, and a spiffy new fading splash screen. Unfortunately, plugin support did not make the cut like it was supposed to. Check it out, this browser should be awesome once it is done."

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  1. Re:WOW how impressive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Well, one thing you forgot to mention was that it also add quartz rendering. I don't know about you, but that is one hell of a upgrade. Compare text rending in Mozilla and Chimera and you tell me if the verison changed anything.

  2. Re:this is a great browser by Panix · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Quartz rendering that you speak of was already completed for 0.2 and it is what provides the beautiful antialiased (smoothed) text that you see already in Chimera. So, don't worry the speed you see now will probably only improve! It actually appears to be *much* faster than the stiffest competition (OmniWeb) for me.

    Summary: have no fear, that Quartz rendering is already here =)

  3. Re:Icky pull-down support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Pull-downs do work, jut not correctly. Try clicking on the tab, and then using your arrows to select whatever, then click the go button. I know it sucks, but it is a work around.

  4. nice looking browser by azosx · · Score: 2, Informative
    Launches about twice as fast as Mozilla which is a plus. According to top, it uses just about as much memory as Mozilla though.


    639 Navigator 4.2% 0:24.55 7 98 431 8.43M 25.0M 27M 108M


    638 Mozilla 1.4% 0:10.08 6 86 308 15.4M 24.2M 31.7M 96.9M


    It's really difficult to want to continue using this browser when it doesn't even support downloading. One would expect more from a 10mb download. Mozilla isn't much bigger yet has a lot more features. All the bugs that prevented previous builds from accessing certain essental webpages i go to have been fixed. The text entry field is a lot Slower than I'm able to type it, kind of annoying. It's a good looking browser that ties in nicely with OS X. Get download support in the next release, then I'll consider switching.