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Midweek Upgrades

Posted by pudge on 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."

25 comments

  1. new terminology? by Hadlock · · Score: 3, Interesting

    full of fun new stuff for MacBeards to play with.

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

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    1. Re:new terminology? by asparagus · · Score: 5, Funny

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

      A Mac-using chick from Berkeley who doesn't believe in shaving down Cupertino way?

      -Brett

    2. Re:new terminology? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      duuuude.

  2. Requires Flash upgrade by amichalo · · Score: 3, Informative

    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!

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    1. Re:Requires Flash upgrade by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      actually i believe that macromedia has just released a new flash 6.
      http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/mac osx/ 11622

    2. Re:Requires Flash upgrade by scsiboy · · Score: 1

      I thought that was an option to turn it back ON - since I believe it has always been off by default.

    3. Re:Requires Flash upgrade by mgs1000 · · Score: 1

      Now they just need an option to turn off Flash. I don't have it installed because of all the annoying ads in Flash.

  3. You can easily get the latest chimera build... by sc00p18 · · Score: 3, Interesting


    ...using a nice applescript application called Chimera Knight. Just thought some people might like to know that's out there.

  4. Performance by kyrre · · Score: 1

    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.

    1. Re:Performance by Hi+Larry! · · Score: 1

      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.

  5. Phoenix for Mac OS X by X_Caffeine · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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).

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    1. Re:Phoenix for Mac OS X by analog_line · · Score: 2

      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.

    2. Re:Phoenix for Mac OS X by runenfool · · Score: 0

      Are you referring to Chimera 0.6?

      I was completely unimpressed with 0.5, and with 0.4 - but since I started with 0.6 I haven't gone back to IE or Mozilla.

      I ran opera for a while, but the buttons on my favorite web forum wouldn't show up. I haven't played with Omniweb in quite some time, but it looks nice :)

  6. link... by X_Caffeine · · Score: 3, Informative

    sorry... experimental Phoenix for OS X. p.s. I forgot to mention, it also has a Google searchbar!

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    1. Re:link... by Spock+the+Baptist · · Score: 2

      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!

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  7. Strange naming by thatguywhoiam · · Score: 1
    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.

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    1. Re:Strange naming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Chimera is the name of the total project, with the Navigator browser only being the currently most visible result of that project.

    2. Re:Strange naming by sparkleytone · · Score: 2, Interesting

      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.

  8. About all the browsers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    For people claiming that Phoenix (Windows/Linux versions) is fast, and Chimera (OS X version) is slow...please note that the same release of Mozilla runs much faster on Windows/Linux than on OS X. You can't compare the Win/Lin version of Phoenix to the OS X version of Chimera!

  9. Try the nightly builds... by ZxCv · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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  10. Office update? by jabex · · Score: 1

    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..."

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    1. Re:Office update? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      • 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.

      On the contrary, it seems to me that the apps now launch MUCH faster than before (2-3 secs on my iMac G4/800). I still have to verify this on another machine, but I'm pretty sure the result will be the same...

    2. Re:Office update? by jabex · · Score: 1

      I have yet to try it (iBook) but according to

      http://www.microsoft.com/mac/DOWNLOAD/OFFICEX/Of fi ceX_1012.asp

      it just seems to be an update that updates anything that hasn't been updated to the last update (sorry for the excessive use of the word "update").

      "This updater includes the following previously released updates for Microsoft Office v. X for Mac:

      Office v.X 10.1.1 Update
      Office v.X Service Release 1
      Entourage X Hotmail Update
      Network Security Update"

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  11. Isn't this what versiontracker is for? by anarkhos · · Score: 1

    Is slashdot going to become the Mac's freshmeat?

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  12. iBook 600/384 no problems by jo_ham · · Score: 1

    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.