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OS X browser project updated with features

updated 10:30 am EDT, Tue May 28, 2002

 
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The Fizzilla-based Web browser project for OS X, Chimera v0.2.8, adds URL autocomplete, a new "Go" meno to go back and forward multiple steps, progress indicators for downloads, new prefs panels, and improved plug-ins.


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  1. bryan.falchuk

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    First Post, sucker!

  1. QuickSilverGuy

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    Best of the bunch...

    Faster and prettier than IE, more stable than OmniWeb, and developing faster than any other browser out there (thanks to the great David Hyatt and all the other contributors) - this is the browser to watch for OS X. It's been only a month since the 0.27 release, but this update packs a bunch of improvements. Already my default browser....

  1. zaren

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    Hmm...

    Can't say I've really heard about this browser before today. Looks liike something else I get to download and play with...

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  1. MacNN.com Reader

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    Well...

    ...there go the rumors about Chimera's development coming to a halt.

  1. MacNN.com Reader

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    Looking forward

    to when this browser is at v1.0. I think with some work it could edge out Omniweb in functionality, speed, and stability.

    Mozilla's GUI is so ugly and non-user friendly that I refuse to use it....but Chimera is something to watch.

  1. MacNN.com Reader

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    text input...

    Is text input fixed in this version? I couldn't use the older one because typing was unbearably slow...I'd type a sentence and wait 5 seconds for the whole thing to appear on-screen...

    For a forum-user 0.2.7 was basically unusable. I'll give this one a try...

  1. testudo

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    Re: Best of the Bunch

    I find it hard to call an early development build "best of the bunch". Not being able to get to the web-site, my questions about this browser would be, when all is said and done (it goes 1.0), how well is the integration (and, more importantly on some levels, the lack there-of), with respect to getting Mozilla bug and security fixes implemented and a new version released? And what type of turnaround are they looking at for getting future versions of Mozilla (say 1.1 and 2.0) integrated.

    And I personally don't see the interface atrocities in Mozilla mentioned by another. Maybe I'm using a different Mozilla, but I don't see it as "ugly and non-user friendly". Netscape, well, that's a differnet story. But maybe I'm missing something.

  1. MacNN.com Reader

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    What happened to proxy?

    It seems that proxy support has been broken in this build, which means I can't use it... doh!

    Ah wel.. mozilla is good enough for now.. :)

  1. QuickSilverGuy

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    development build...

    Yes, it's a development build, which means that many features aren't implemented yet. But, for day to day web browsing, 95% of the essential features are there, and it's the fastest browser out there (at least on my hardware). If you are expecting a feature complete browser when it's version number is 0.28, you obviously don't know what purpose version numbers serve...

  1. testudo

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    Bookmarks

    Not having tried it, can anyone let me know whether Chimera uses the same settings (bookmarks, cache, etc) as Mozilla, or is it all separate?

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