WebOrbiter Posted August 18, 2002 Share Posted August 18, 2002 I've used IE 5.x for OSX for about a year now, but now Im using Chimera and I'll never go back, anyone else use it? :bandit: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted August 19, 2002 Veteran Share Posted August 19, 2002 Yep, it's a very impressive browser. I've currently got it decked out in The Blue format of Omniweb: The bookmark icon still needs changing though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessejlt Posted August 19, 2002 Share Posted August 19, 2002 Took me about 5 minutes of using IE to know I hated it. I installed Omniweb, iCab, Netscape, and then Chimera...Chimera is the only one left on my system :cool: It's an excellent browser. jesse ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux2 Posted August 19, 2002 Share Posted August 19, 2002 Yup. Dazzla turned me onto it about 3 weeks ago :cool: If it handled javascript better I would use it exclusively. I get tired of having to double click really fast on drop down boxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux2 Posted August 19, 2002 Share Posted August 19, 2002 hey hey. . . tonights build is using favicons now for bookmarks instead of the generic one :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtmcgee Posted August 19, 2002 Share Posted August 19, 2002 i use it and IE about 50/50 right now. chimera is slowly taking over as my default browser though .. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted August 19, 2002 Share Posted August 19, 2002 Chimera is my full time browser. I have it decked out with the graphite Omniweb look at the moment: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkleytone Posted August 19, 2002 Share Posted August 19, 2002 yup I've been using Chimera as my main browser since around .2 It looks great, runs great, renders with the mozilla engine, and is best of all free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Posted August 19, 2002 Share Posted August 19, 2002 Well I used Omniweb, then switched overto Chimera. Decided Omniweb was faster and looked better, so I switched back to Omniweb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkleytone Posted August 19, 2002 Share Posted August 19, 2002 ahem...did you say FASTER??? we are talking about omniweb right?? and how can you deal with the sheer amount of sites rendered improperly with OW?? i could render HTML by HAND faster and more accurate than omniweb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Posted August 19, 2002 Share Posted August 19, 2002 I haven't found a website yet that Omniweb renders improperly. I have found a couple that Chimera doesn't do too well with. Especially with Jaguar, Chimera is quite a bit slower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted August 19, 2002 Share Posted August 19, 2002 I don't know if Omniweb is faster than Chimera, but I do know that Omniweb has problems with displaying some parts of Neowin correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Posted August 19, 2002 Share Posted August 19, 2002 Originally posted by GatorZx2 I don't know if Omniweb is faster than Chimera, but I do know that Omniweb has problems with displaying some parts of Neowin correctly. Well I have yet to see any problems. Anyway, back to the thread topic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkleytone Posted August 19, 2002 Share Posted August 19, 2002 www.mozdev.org placement issues. been that way since forever. i used to be an omniweb fan, but since chimera got quartz rendering i havent looked back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cerbero Posted August 19, 2002 Share Posted August 19, 2002 Yeap, use Chimera 98%. The only site I need to use IE for is GFXArtist, since it uses layers, and the Mozilla engine doesn't seem to handle them pretty well. And yeah, the latest nightly builds uses favicons. NeoWin's one doesn't look very good with it though :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted August 19, 2002 Veteran Share Posted August 19, 2002 Originally posted by cerbero And yeah, the latest nightly builds uses favicons. NeoWin's one doesn't look very good with it though :) Crap, they do look bad. Very, very bad. Have you found a way to turn off favicons? Are you up for making another one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cerbero Posted August 19, 2002 Share Posted August 19, 2002 Originally posted by Dazzla Crap, they do look bad. Very, very bad. Have you found a way to turn off favicons? Are you up for making another one? I saw it was replaced, but I think it would work better on non-windows systems with an icon that hasn't got a transparent background. Many big sites uses a white background for their favicon, so it's probably the best approach. I made this one below. Someone has to convert it to .ico format though. I haven't got Virtual PC set up since my reinstall so I can't convert it myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pizza Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 OK...I've been using Chimera since you guys love it, and now I'm a big fan. My one complaint is switching between tabs. The keyboard shortcut absolutely sucks! "command {" which also requires holding down the shift. I don't suppose anyone has a way of doing this with another key combination? :ermm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkleytone Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 ya well i've been fighting with the developers on this one and i believe the latest status of the bug i filed was WONTFIX. gotta love opensource. the shortcut up until just after the .4 release was cmd+shift+left and cmd+shift+right. the commands for page navigation were the same without shift. in this browser they will always be connected as such. this worked out really great, but they have decided to go with the "more maclike" [ and ] keys, due to utter stupidity and working for too long at the Titanic (aol). I like these guys and they are mad crazy talented but this has always been a heated issue. The [ and ] shortcuts are modeled after the finder defaults, but are an absolute nightmare for anyone using a non-US keyboard layout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebOrbiter Posted September 20, 2002 Author Share Posted September 20, 2002 My favicons disappeared from my bookmarks after I upgraded to .5 and I cant seem to get them, anyone know how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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