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Chimera Gets a New Name

Posted by pudge on from the i-used-to-drive-an-el-camino dept.

ProfKyne writes "Looks like Chimera (the other white meat) is getting a name change. The article asks that you please don't chime in with your suggestions."

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  1. and Phoenix? by jmd! · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What happened to the Phoenix rename? I haven't seen any official comment on it for a while. Just a public message board with some 400 suggestions.

  2. iBrowse by Darchenman · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If they're considering iVoyage, they should consider iBrowse too. Besides te obvious pun (sorry), it says what it does.

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  3. Safari is 2nd class by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't care about the name... I just want 0.7 to come out to steal some of Safari's thunder. Safari is ok and all, but Chimera is world calss!

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  4. I like that name by timothy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Camino is actually a nice name, IMO. iBrowse (suggested by another commenter) is pretty funny, but I think that runs into the Legal problem again.

    Camino -- "road" -- is not bad metaphorically, either. I think of a pleasant drive on the coast, as apposed to calling it, oh ... "New Jersey Turnpike, The Browser."

    Chimera was a *better*, but Camino is a good enough replacement, and the fact that it's a nice browser is more important ;)

    timothy

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  5. a tie? by MacAndrew · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm very loyal to Chimera, but I think it and Safari are pretty close to equivalence. When Safari makes it to 1.2 or so, I don't know what Chimera (or whatever its name will be) will use to distinguish itself. Obviously these coders are good at what they do -- should they work on a "me too" product? Or is there some dramatic advance in browsers that Chimera will make and Safari won't? Right now, it's pretty much what I want save a feature or two, but it's just stubbornness that keeps me from switching to Safari. The developers seem resistant to feature creep -- more power to them. Look at IE (shudder).

    To get the version release hung up on a name is pretty lousy. Why the heck did they go with Chimera in the first place, when a 10-second search would have turned up the other? And why the delay to switch? Not that I care ... I'm glad they did the project at all, and wish Safari were also (entirely) open source (hello, Apple?).

    A new name ... hmm, should take aim at Safari ... how about Environmentalist? Ecotourist? Bambo? :)

    1. Re:a tie? by MacAndrew · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It depends on how they play it: Safari's primary target must be MSIE, the lumbering Spanish galleon of the browser world that Steven Jobs Drake would like pierced below the waterline and off Mac desktops. The Safari/Chimera approach appears to be keeping things light and limber, which is smart I think; it's the hallmark of a good Mac utility app.

      But there seems to be a real duplication of effort, when the same folks could be writing open source improvements to Safari (I assume this is feasible? otherwise what's the point of open source). I don't like all the eggs in one basket, and am torn between my pleasure that Apple has reentered the market and my concern that it might undermine it. Safari parallels Chimera so closely -- the sincerest form of flattery. :)

      I'm not writing as a developer and don't know anything about the accessibility of Safari development to third parties. I know a % is proprietary -- why don't they open the whole thing? I'm hoping they won't get cute and decide to charge for Safari down the line -- the sort of thing continued development of Chimera (oops, Camino) would protect against. But the, and last, Chimera/Camino is pretty much complete for my purposes, kind of like NS 4.78 was a peak product that is still used places like my public library. If a product meets its purpose....

      Bye-bye Opera, my old favorite. And iCab, whatever happened to it.

  6. Name suggestion! by sean23007 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They should name it Bellerophon. You know, the guy who killed the Chimera...

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  7. Makes No Sense... by Shuh · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The explanation.

    Since when is "Chimera" worse from a "legal" standpoint than "Camino?" This has been going on for months, yet this is the first we've heard of it? Something smells bad... real bad.

  8. Re:A Rose By Any Other Name by wtmcgee · · Score: 2, Interesting

    after the .7 release, chimera (or whatever it will be called) will move over to the mozilla 1.3 codebase. this should make chimera (or whatever it will be called) MUCH faster, considering i think it is now based on the 1.01 codebase.

    we may see some more instability, but the speed should be much better, along with improved rendering.

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