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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."

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  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. 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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  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. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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