OS X saavy Mozilla

wolfeye155 · March 26, 2002 9:47PM

I've fallen in love with Mozilla. I don't know why but IE just doesn't cut it anymore (lol and I've only had my Mac for 5 days! <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> ). The only thing that I don't like is the *bland* Netscape interface it uses. That's the only thing IE has going for it IMO and that is fancy, transparent, pulsing buttons. Anyway I'd like to see a more OS X aquafied version of Mozilla what about you? Unless of course there is already something that I don't know about...

airsluf · March 26, 2002 10:53PM

ghost_user_name · March 27, 2002 5:17AM

Chimera is a brand-spanking-new browser for OSX that uses Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine, but uses Cocoa as a native front-end to manage the interface (rather than that yucky XML). It's still in *early* development, but has the potential to be the best browser for X. You can get info and download it at <a href="http://chimera.mozdev.org"; target="_blank">http://chimera.mozdev.org</a>;

The interface is going through lots of changes, but here's a shot with the new widgets from the upcoming version 0.2 (0.2 will also officially change the name from Chimera to Navigator):

[ 03-27-2002: Message edited by: starfleetX ]

thegelding · March 27, 2002 7:33AM

when did, or is, 2.0 coming out??...thanks g (using netscape 6.2.2)

anand · March 27, 2002 8:54AM

Wow starfleetX , that looks amazing, is that available? I have been using Mozilla and love it. What is nice is that when you are downloading and minimize the window, all you have to do is place the mouse over the window and it will tell you how much is loaded. Nice. But that looks great - can't wait!

wolfeye155 · March 27, 2002 9:08AM

I do have Chimera already and it is very very fast. The only problem is it has no features on it. Obviously it's still very early in development so I can't complain about that and I agree that it will probably grow into the nicest and fastest browser for OS X. I've tried OmniWeb 4.0 and it's OK but some pages I go to don't support it. Also Mozilla feels faster than it. I guess what I'm looking for is Mozilla 0.9.9 with aqua (their next upgrade maybe??? :confused

Maybe I'll try OmniWeb 4.1...

i like macs · March 27, 2002 9:13AM

[quote] sneakypeek is essentially a beta, but pretty decent for beta. Gets updated every couple days.<hr></blockquote>

actually OW hasn't been updated in over 3 weeks. either it has and the built-in updater doesn't know it, or it hasn't been updated.

airsluf · March 27, 2002 11:46AM

eman · March 27, 2002 2:16PM

[quote]Originally posted by I like Macs:



actually OW hasn't been updated in over 3 weeks. either it has and the built-in updater doesn't know it, or it hasn't been updated.<hr></blockquote>

I got a message yesterday that a new version was availible.

torifile · March 27, 2002 2:21PM

I got sp63 yesterday. I wish I would have stayed at 39, though, b/c that was the last time phpmyadmin worked right in it. Back to IE for me for a while. (Anyone know where I can get sp 39?)

ghost_user_name · March 27, 2002 4:57PM

[quote]Originally posted by torifile:

(Anyone know where I can get sp 39?)<hr></blockquote>You can get any of the old sp's from the sp archive directory:

<a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/ftp/pub/software/MacOSX/.sneakypeek/releases/archive/"; target="_blank">http://www.omnigroup.com/ftp/pub/software/MacOSX/.sneakypeek/releases/archive/</a>;

i like macs · March 27, 2002 7:31PM

yo EmAn, whats the version number in the about box

ghost_user_name · March 27, 2002 7:33PM

I like Macs:

The current sp is 4.1 sneaky peek 63 (v374)

eman · March 28, 2002 9:44AM

Nevermind. starfleetX answered the question.

[ 03-28-2002: Message edited by: EmAn ]

ghost_user_name · March 28, 2002 6:59PM

By the way, if you're getting the newest "nightly" build on a regular basis, you should try the <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/kgerich/pinstripe.html"; target="_blank">Pinstripe theme</a>. I think it makes the Mozilla interface look much better in OSX. The current theme requires a 0.9.9+ build.

wolfeye155 · March 29, 2002 12:11AM

I downloaded OmniWeb 4.1 and like it ALOT more then 4.0. I also got this Pinstrip theme on Mozilla and it's pretty nice. Thank you very much. Now all I have to do is decide between OmniWeb and Mozilla...

PS- Chimera .2 looks very nice. Hopefully it will maintain its speed and have more features.

robo · March 29, 2002 9:48PM

starfleetX - where did you get the 0.2 build of Chimera? Did you build it yourself?

It looks great.

robo

ghost_user_name · March 30, 2002 12:17AM

Yeah, I just built "Navigator 0.2.0" myself. I pulled and compiled Fizilla and Chim fresh from the CVS this morning and it took about two or three hours to complete. It *looks* really nice with the pretty icons and splash screen, but is extremely unstable and buggy as hell. It's less stable than any of 0.1.x were! I can understand why they aren't ready to release it yet... still no plugin support, no CoreGraphics AA, no downloading, no contextual menus, etc. Of course, they could have some code that hasn't made public yet, which I suspect.

Hrrrmph. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />

You can get the build I made this morning if you're interested.

<a href="http://brad.project-think.com/downloads/navigator020.dmg.gz"; target="_blank">Download Navigator 0.2.0 build 2002032915</a> (8.6 MB)

Note: the Personal.prefPane has to be in the same folder at Navigator to work.

stimuli · March 31, 2002 12:37AM

[quote]when did, or is, 2.0 coming out??...thanks g (using netscape 6.2.2)<hr></blockquote>

Probably not for another three years or so. But 0.2 should be out any day..

Hey starfleet, what are your machine's specs? It puts compile time into perspective.

ghost_user_name · March 31, 2002 8:12AM

Dual 500 G4 with 832 MB RAM and DSL 1.5 Mbps (1202 kbps according to DSLreports.com).

Of course, it was compiling in the background while I was listening to iTunes and surfing the web. So, it didn't get full use of the processors.

[ 03-31-2002: Message edited by: starfleetX ]

stimuli · April 1, 2002 2:11AM

Ah... Unix. Gotta love compiling software without breaking stride. Listen to tunes... read some web pages...

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