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| <P><B>Installation</B><BR> |
<P><B>Installation</B><BR> |
| The newest build is 0.2.1. (It will be available at midnight tonight!) |
| The newest build is 0.2.0. <font color=red>I've had to | <p> |
| remove the binary because mozdev simply can't handle the | Download Chimera <a href="http://people.netscape.com/sdagley/chimera/chimera21.dmg.gz">here</a>. <font color=red>The MIME type from the Netscape server is incorrect, so instead of clicking on the link, use your context menu |
| traffic. Once I get it moved to a site with more bandwidth, I'll | to "Save Link As...".</font> |
| post the new link. | <p> |
| </font> | <p><b>What's New In 0.2.1</b> |
| <p> | <p> |
| <p><b>What's New In 0.2.0</b> | <p> |
| <p> | Find in Page and Find Again are now implemented. |
| The latest build of Chimera demonstrates a highly experimental | <p> |
| implementation of Quartz rendering. The current build locks you | Chimera will now remember your window's size and position across launches, |
| into Quartz, but the Quickdraw renderer will still be available | so you don't have to constantly resize your browser window any more. |
| via a pref in a later point release. For now you're locked into | <p> |
| Quartz with the current build. Also, printing with Quartz turned on | Chimera will now move and shrink a browser window as necessary to |
| is pretty busted, so don't even bother. :) | accommodate the sidebar. If you don't move the window, then it will also |
| <p> | return to its original size and position after you close the sidebar. |
| Chimera 0.2.0 has much improved scrolling over previous versions. | <p> |
| Most importantly it now uses native Aqua scrollbars rather than | Context menus are now in place for all objects (links, images, input fields). |
| emulating the look via the Appearance Manager. Scrolling is also | Several commands have been hooked up, including Back/Forward/Reload, |
| much faster, using both the wheel and the keyboard. | the ability to open links in new windows and tabs, and the ability to |
| <p> | save links and images to disk (although you won't see any progress |
| The tab browser feature has had some crash fixes and speed | yet while saving). |
| enhancements. You can now also cycle through tabs via the keyboard | <p> |
| and close tabs. In addition the tab strip will auto-hide when only | Chimera has fully implemented popup blocking, in a way that is |
| one tab is being used. | actually accessible to novice users. Chimera can detect whether a popup |
| <p> | is of the evil variety and offers to enable popup blocking when it |
| Support for Command and Shift clicking of links has been added. You | encounters one of these popups. Click Ok and you'll never be bothered |
| can use Command+Click to open a link in a new window. If you use the | by popups again. No mucking through advanced or obscure preferences |
| Shift modifier, the window will load in the background. You can also | to figure out how to block popups. Chimera takes care of this for you. |
| make Command/Shift open tabs instead by setting the same pref that is | <p> |
| used by Mozilla. The load links in background pref that Mozilla uses | The bookmarks sidebar has been revamped with all new icons. Menu bookmarks will now show up |
| is also supported by Chimera. (These prefs aren't exposed in Chimera's | after you add them. The sidebar has a new bookmark task bar for common |
| UI yet, so you'll have to enter your secret .mozilla dir and edit your | actions such as creating a bookmark, editing a bookmark, creating a folder |
| prefs.js by hand.) | or removing a bookmark. |
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| Chimera 0.2.0 has a new splash screen, application icon, and new toolbar | You can now use Option+Click to save links (although again, no progress indication will be given yet). |
| and sidebar icons. | |
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| Finally and most importantly Chimera has had many crash fixes and | Other miscellaneous fixes: The horizontal scrollbar problem has been fixed in 0.2.1. Tab keyboard navigation has been improved. Textfields no longer have trouble accepting input. The Home gaffe (mapping to the cycle windows key) has been fixed. The sidebar crashes have been fixed. |
| stability fixes. | |
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| Enjoy! <br> |
Enjoy! <br> |
| Dave<br> |
Dave<br> |
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