Installation
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XPI INSTALL LINK
+The newest build of Chimera is 0.2.5. You can download it from the following location:
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+Dave's iDisk
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+What's New (0.2.4 -> 0.2.5) +
+Plugin support has been greatly improved. Crashes when scrolling pages with Flash have +been fixed. This build is generally much more stable with plugins than 0.2.4. Plugins +will now stay inside the window and not paint on your toolbars and status bar. +
+The ability to choose your renderer has been fully implemented. From the View menu, +you can select "Smooth Text" to use Quartz anti-aliasing. If you turn this option off, +you will be using Quickdraw un-antialiased text. International users can turn off +the Quartz anti-aliasing to view non-Roman characters. This can also be used as a good +debugging tool to find out whether performance or rendering problems are specific to our +Quartz rendering implementation. +
+Menulist popups will now position themselves properly when the page is scrolled. +
+You can now drag and drop links from a page onto Gecko windows to load the URL in that +window. +
+What's New (0.2.3 -> 0.2.4) +
+Plugins plugins plugins! Quicktime seems to work rather well, but Flash still has several +crashers. Pages with Flash *will* be unstable in this build. Do not replace 0.2.3 with +this build unless you like living on the edge. :) +
+- Gamma correction has been returned (hopefully) to the 0.2.1 level. +
+- Font defaults have been tweaked a fair bit to hopefully provide a better default browsing +experience than 0.2.3. +
+- Popups now position themselves better. (I won't go so far as to say "properly", but they're +better.) +
+- Textareas now have an Aqua appearance (this was left out of 0.2.3). +
+What's New (0.2.2 -> 0.2.3) +
+Chimera 0.2.2 was compiled with correct ATSUI (ATSUI with kerning and ligatures +enabled). Yes, we have that working, but as you saw, it slows things down substantially. +Chimera 0.2.3 returns to the fast ATSUI as the default. This pref will eventually be +exposed in Advanced preferences (along with the ability to use Quickdraw as well). +
+The gamma correction regression present in 0.2.2 has been fixed in 0.2.3. +
+The form controls are now Aqua. This includes button, checkboxes, radio buttons, textfields, +listboxes and menulists. Most importantly menulists now function! :) +
+Some more crash fixes also made it into 0.2.3. +
+Enjoy! +Dave +(hyatt@netscape.com) +
What's New (0.2.1 -> 0.2.2) +
+Chimera can now open URLs sent to it from other apps, so you can +now make Chimera your default browser and not have it sit there +looking stupid when you tell it to load something. ;) +
+Text Zoom has been implemented, so you can now increase and decrease +the font size used in a Web page. +
+Chimera now obeys the new minimum font size pref, ensuring that +Quartz-rendered fonts don't fall below the typical anti-aliasing cutoff +point. +Quartz rendering has been improved. In addition to being speedier, +it now has fixes for printing and for text spacing. +
+Chimera now has a bookmarks toolbar. Like the Mozilla Classic personal +toolbar, Chimera's toolbar can wrap to multiple rows and supports pages +and folders. +
+Bookmarks management has been improved. You can now specify where you +want to create a new bookmark. You can now create new folders. +The sidebar tree widget has been enhanced to support more keyboard +navigation (left/right arrows to open/close, return to launch, +delete key to delete, etc.). +
+Bookmark groups have been fully implemented. When adding a bookmark +with multiple tabs open, you have the option of bookmarking all the +tabs as a single group. Use this feature to load bundles of pages in a single +click! +
+Background tab loading will now work. Background tabs will now refresh +properly if left unattended. +
+Enjoy!
+Dave
+(hyatt@netscape.com)
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Building Chimera
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+Chimera has complete build instructions on mozilla's Web pages (under +the code name ChimChim). You can find those instructions +here. +Be aware that the downloadable build listed above contains numerous +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. +
+If you have questions about building, use the chimera mailing list or hop on to #mozilla, and someone can help you out.