Dr. Mac's OS X Tip-of-the-Day 
Dr. Mac - Check out Chimera
By Bob LeVitus
Chimera (http://chimera.mozdev.org/) is a browser for Mac OS X that has
a Cocoa user interface, and embeds the Gecko layout engine. Based on
Mozilla, an open-source web browser and toolkit designed for standards
compliance, performance and portability, it is a simple, small and fast
browser that totally rocks (most of the time).
Considering it's not even a 1.0 release, it's a fast and very capable
browser chock full of neat stuff.I like Chimera a lot. I already use it
as much as I can. (Some pages demand IE...)
Tabbed browsing is the cat's meow (more on that tomorrow) and Chimera
is the first browser I know of that supports the OS X Keychain for
sites that require your username and password. I hadn't thought about
how cool that would be, and having it is pretty cool.
I'd be remiss if I didn't add this proviso, from the Chimera Web pages:
> Chimera is still in the beta stage of its development. It
> is stable enough to use day-to-day, but you may still
> encounter bugs. You should always keep backup copies of
> important data that you use with Chimera (e.g. your
> bookmarks file). The latest Chimera stable release is 0.6,
> and you can download it from:
>
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/chimera/releases/chimera-0.6.dmg.gz
>
> The Chimera source code is constantly being worked on and
> improved, and we push builds every night that you can go
> and download (so-called nightly builds ). These will get
> you the latest bleeding-edge features, but are likely to
> contain bugs. Use them at your own risk! You can grab the
> most recent nightly build from:
>
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/chimera/nightly/latest/
That said, I usually run the latest nightly build (I like bleeding
edges) and while it crashes occasionally, it's never caused any trouble
beyond that. I just relaunch it and try again.
I like Chimera a lot and use it often. Give it a try if you haven't
lately... I think you may like it too.
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Bob LeVitus is a leading authority on Mac OS and the author of 39 books,
including Mac OS X For Dummies and The Little iTunes Book.
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