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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."
full of fun new stuff for MacBeards to play with.
eh? what's a MacBeard? open source mac coders?
moox. for a new generation.
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!
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
...using a nice applescript application called Chimera Knight. Just thought some people might like to know that's out there.
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).
// I will show you fear in a handful of jellybeans.
sorry... experimental Phoenix for OS X. p.s. I forgot to mention, it also has a Google searchbar!
// I will show you fear in a handful of jellybeans.
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.
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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