Now that the iBook is all nice and customized, I don't really use any of the other computers in the house very often. One of the reasons for this is Chimera: it's a Cocoa-ized version of Mozilla that offers most of the features I'm looking for in a browser. It renders web pages such that they're simply beautiful yet easy to read (readable antialiased fonts). And it does exactly what a web browser should do: render web pages -- no email client, no HTML editor, no integrated checkbook or search tool.
But there are some issues with the browser -- it is possibly the buggiest and crashiest browser I've ever used. It also has become quite quirky. Chimera does offer tabbed browsing, but it gets quite slow if the length of the combined titles displayed in the various tabs exceeds the window width. (There's no delay in loading five tabs with sort page titles, but two pages with long titles cause a third to load exceedingly slowly). Second, the longer the app runs the longer pages take to load; minutes to render isn't unheardof. (This is probably a function of the number of windows+tabs loaded.)
Interestingly, Mozilla (the carbonized app for OS X) doesn't have these issues. But Chimera is just so beautiful, that I have a very difficult time using Mozilla or IE. Mostly I've learned to quit many times per day (before the browser crashes); that's been the most effective coping behavior I've come across yet.
Unfortunately, Chimera simply crashes when I try to run it on Jaguar.
Re:Jaguar
Matts on 2002-08-21T13:11:03
Works fine for me running the latest ADC Jaguar.
