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Chimera for Mac Os X Chimera on Mac OS X Using Native Aqua Chimera For Mac Os X Chimera on Mac OS X using native Aqua windows. Chimera versions are available for X windows and for native Aqua windows. We recommend the X windows version because of the many problems with the current port of the Aqua Tk window toolkit that Chimera uses. Requirements Chimera runs on Mac OS. This is the section you will want to read: On Mac OS X, Chimera can be started by clicking the chimera icon or by dragging and dropping certain file types on the chimera icon. The drag-and-drop approach currently works for the Chimera web data (.chimerax) and PDB (.pdb) file types. Chimera can also be started from the Terminal command line. Runs on Mac OS X 10.10 or later. To start Chimera on 10.15 (Catalina) or later, you need to right-click (or control-click) on the app icon and choose 'Open' from the. 'Chimera' (The X-Files), an episode of The X-Files; Computing. Chimera (software library), a peer-to-peer software research project; Camino (web browser) or Chimera, a free Mac OS X web browser; UCSF Chimera, a software program for visualizing molecules; Other uses. Chimaera (Epirus), a town of ancient Epirus, now in Albania. Chimera - The newest OS X browser 38 comments Create New Account Click here to return to the 'Chimera - The newest OS X browser' hint The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say. I just grabbed Chimera - I'm pretty happy with it thus far. For one thing, it can use last week's pick of the week Cocoa Gestures, which I'm getting used to. I'm a little worried that my wrist is sore, but that's not going to stop me from using a flick of the wrist to move between tabs! It grabbed my Mozilla bookmarks just fine, and had fewer preferences to set, at least from the GUI. It seems to work with all of my previously installed plugins. It's pretty to look at. It uses a drawer to bring up your bookmark list (although it has trouble resizing the window when it's done). It uses the main keychain to store web passwords, instead of its own password control stuff. It doesn't have form memory, but I barely use that. Cookies seem to work fine, although it obviously didn't grab all of my Mozilla cookies. Happy thus far, going to use it for a while, and I might dump Mozilla too... All right, I'm being really crazy with the mouse gestures now... :o) I'm using v0.6 (and 10.2.2). The speed with which it draws its pages is about 50-75% faster than IE. It has crashed once in the last week but IE locks up far more often. There are some sites (like banking) for which IE is still required and also some sites (like University of Phoenix's student area) where some elements aren't displayed. I do not fault Chimera for this as the HTML is of the Microsoft-proprietary variety. Obviously some programmers at UoPhx looking for job security (or too stupid to know that you do webpages based on real standards). Oh, almost forgot! The smoothing of the fonts in Chimera is -way- superior to IE. I'd like to see some add'l prefs to give me tabbing to just text fields instead of to every link on the page (that's Windoze crapola). Bottom line: I'm very impressed and, in fact, using it to write this post. Since Chimera still is work in progress I need to use Mozilla too. Therefore, I want to share preferences between Chimera and Mozilla (yes I know you are not recommended to do this, but I backup everything everyday so I can take the risk), but neither aliasing my ~/Library/Mozilla to ~/Library/Application Support/Chimera or soft linking (ln -s) them works. I have more than one profile, i.e., I don't want to fix (link/alias) every profile's bookmarks, chrome, cookies, history etc. Suggestions? i've been using chimera as my fulltime browser since .4 The newest build is just marvelous. Its still slack on features, but i'll tell you what... I haven't had a popup in about 5 months, and thats the truth. And i don't have to run some other application to do it. That in it self is worth it. I am also addicted to tab browsing, its great, i mainly use it on my ibook, but its the greatest. I NEVER use IE anymore, and can't stand it. The only thing i use it for is for my online Bank, and I think it will be like that for a long while, i'm sure it would work just fine, but they seem to think it won't. I'd like to see the option of putting in my own info for the browser detection, like Konqueror does in KDE. If you haven't tried it yet, its fast, stable, low in memory, low in cpu, and looks just great. Go get and trash your old browser.... It's definitely faster to load and faster to run that Mozilla - I've been using Mozilla for a month or two now, so IE is a distant memory. Whenever I use someone else's computer, I freak out when I get a pop-up. They're a faded bad memory :o). The popup disabler in Chimera is a little too absolute... at least compared to Mozilla. Specifically, they way some sites do their go-to menus, they simply don't work because Chimera kills the JS call. Some sites are even obnoxious enough to not have a regular go button next to said menu, so I have to look at the source code and figure out the links myself. ::sigh:: I've only used it for about 20 minutes, but I'm happy. Now I just have to proselytize a little :o). http://uabar.mozdev.org/ allows you to change the useragent. I havent tried this with chimera yet, but works with mozilla. its just a BROWSWER, not an irc client, news reader, email client, and whatever else comes with the bloatware they call mozilla.... I agree... it took effort to make Mozilla's other 'features' stay out of my way. Not as bad as Nutscrape 6, but still mildly annoying. I like everything separate, so I can pick exactly what I want out of a mail/news reader, IRC/AIM/ICQ/etc client. I won't swear off Mozilla until I see Chimera flex its muscles a little, and make sure that it won't do anything undesirable on a regular basis. I hate to say it, but it's seeming more and more like Mozilla might go the way of IE and Netscape, as far as my Browser tastes are concerned. I look forward to Chimera's continued development. Speaking of which, why is the app just called Navigator, and not Chimera? ...with the Pinstrip theme. I found Chimera nice, but I like Mozilla's popup handling a little better. I don't find Mozilla any slower (not noticably anyway) than Chimera. Thoughts? Chimera is truly awesome. I've looked at it several times over the past few months, but with the relase of version 0.6 I've finally migrated to using it as my full-time browser. Sure, it's missing a few features, and the popup-blocking is just a tad strict, but it's still a heck of a lot better than IE. Chimera was originally posted to OS X Hints (by me!) about 8 months ago.. http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020302221442770 Back than it rendered pages and not much else, now I use Chimera as my default browser. I wonder how long it will be until OS X ships with Chimera set as default :P You can edit the Chimera preferences files to do almost ANYTHING. I using website icons in Chimera right now! checkout: http://www.efritz.net/chimeratricks.html Use with care... Later Silas I don't know why, but i have found Chimera 0.6 to be really unstable. For a long time i have ran Chimera 0.5, and it would very very rarely crash on me. However, now that i have 0.6 all it does is crash on me, several times a day. I cannot figure out what the problem is, but it may be just me. But its really unstable! I'm on OSX 10.2.2 (just updated) on a PowerBook G4 DVI. If it keeps doing it to me, i'll have to downgrade to 0.5 (or try the nightly builds which may fix it), or just use Mozilla. Anyone else been having stability problems with 0.6? And yes, WHY IS it called Navigator instead of Chimera? Its strange. Even in About it says Navigator. D. Yeah, since 0.5 I've had no end of problems with it. I don't know why- a friend of mine uses it almost exclusively and has no problems.. Just updated to 10.2.2 last night, on my old-school iMac DV. I used to use it about half the time, from 0.2-0.3 to 0.4. Now it barely handles one page before it crashes. Hey, I like it too. yeah I do miss the open window BEHIND menu that Omni has but recently Chimera refuses to download anything.
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