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