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| <P><B>Installation</B><BR> |
<P><B>Installation</B><BR> |
| The newest official build of Chimera is 0.3.0. |
| The newest build is 0.2.0. You can download it | |
| <a href="downloads/chimera-latest.tar.gz"">here</a>. | |
| <p> |
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| <p><b>What's New In 0.2.0</b> | <a href=" ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/chimera/releases/chimera-0.3.dmg.gz">Download Chimera 0.3</a><br> |
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| The latest build of Chimera demonstrates a highly experimental | You can also grab the latest nightly build here: |
| implementation of Quartz rendering. The current build locks you | <p> |
| into Quartz, but the Quickdraw renderer will still be available | <a href="ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/chimera/nightly/latest-trunk/"> |
| via a pref in a later point release. For now you're locked into | ftp://komodo.mozilla.org/pub/chimera/nightly/latest-trunk/ |
| Quartz with the current build. Also, printing with Quartz turned on | </a> |
| is pretty busted, so don't even bother. :) | </p> |
| <p> | Nightly builds are not official. They are an up-to-the-day snapshot of |
| Chimera 0.2.0 has much improved scrolling over previous versions. | current development. |
| Most importantly it now uses native Aqua scrollbars rather than | <p> |
| emulating the look via the Appearance Manager. Scrolling is also | <b>What's New (0.3)</b> |
| much faster, using both the wheel and the keyboard. | |
| <p> | |
| The tab browser feature has had some crash fixes and speed | |
| enhancements. You can now also cycle through tabs via the keyboard | |
| and close tabs. In addition the tab strip will auto-hide when only | |
| one tab is being used. | |
| <p> | |
| Chimera 0.2.0 has a new splash screen, application icon, and new toolbar | |
| and sidebar icons. | |
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| Finally and most importantly Chimera has had many crash fixes and | |
| stability fixes. | |
| <p> | |
| Enjoy! <br> | |
| Dave<br> | |
| (hyatt@netscape.com)<br> | |
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| <p><b>Building Chimera</b><br> | |
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| Chimera has complete build instructions on mozilla's Web pages (under | The smooth text implementation now relies on new 10.1.5 features. It is now |
| the code name ChimChim). You can find those instructions | only 5% slower than the unsmoothed text, and about 30% faster than the smooth |
| <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/ports/fizzilla/ChimChim.html">here</a>. | text feature in 0.2.8. You'll find that most operations (typing in text fields, |
| Be aware that the downloadable build listed above contains numerous | resizing of windows, scrolling) are now much faster as well. |
| patches to Mozilla that have not yet been accepted, so any builds that | |
| you do will not be as stable or as performant as the downloadable | |
| build above. | |
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| If you have questions about building, use the chimera mailing list or hop on to #mozilla, and someone can help you out. | The build is much smaller because of a change in build process. This makes |
| | page loads a bit faster. |
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| | You can now edit bookmarks. |
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| | Many crash fixes. :) This build is much more stable than 0.2.8. |
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