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Chimera has this feature…
Authored by: Viridian on Jun 07, '02 09:51:32AM

…and IMHO it's going to be a much better browser than Mozilla. It's MUCH faster, and as a Cocoa application, displays much better-looking pages. The amazing thing is that it's only at v0.2x, with great things to come. I am actually an OmniWeb fan; it's the most elegant browser on any platform, generates the best-looking pages, bar none, and is only about one third the size of Chimera, plus it's more than fast enough.

I've actually emailed the Omni Group urging them to implement tabs in OmniWeb. This is such an enormously useful feature that I believe the browser with the best implementation will rise to the top, and right now Chimera is the fast -moving dark horse.



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Chimera has this feature…
Authored by: macgizmo on Jun 07, '02 11:06:45AM

Actually, I find the Tabs feature almost useless until they can make a way to have a group of tabs
launch automatically when I open Mozilla. As it stands, it's just as easy to click individual links.

I too would like to see the Tab feature in OmniWeb, since it is my browser of choice. I suspect they might
come up with something by version 5, but who knows.



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To each his/her own...
Authored by: robg on Jun 07, '02 11:47:50AM

I now have 21 tabbed windows divided into three tab sets. Open Mozilla, click one, hit command N, click another, hit command N, click the last. That's much easier than click one, hit command T, click another, hit command-T, repeat 20 times...

I may switch to Chimera when it gets much closer to full functionality; it's using the Mozilla HTML rendering engine, which I much prefer to OmniWeb's. But I won't switch from Mozilla to anything that doesn't support tabs and have full Java support - OmniWeb 4.1 still crashes out when I try games.yahoo.com, for example.

But that's why choice is a nice thing - between iCab, IE, Mozilla, Chimera, OmniWeb, Opera, and even lynx and links, there are plenty of options to choose from!

-rob.



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Chimera has this feature…
Authored by: mithras on Jun 07, '02 12:37:24PM

If you ask me, what Omnigroup should do is drop Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine into Omniweb. That way they'd have all the honed Cocoa GUI of Omniweb, without the headaches of the complex task of implementing HTML 4.0/CSS2/XHTML/ECMAscript yadda yadda.

It'd be Chimera, but already finished.



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Copying from Mozilla
Authored by: MtnBiker on Jun 07, '02 01:32:30PM

I've been copying hints from this site using IE and pasting into TexEdit Plus and the font formatting comes along (The by line is white so I have to change that) and it makes it easier to read my favorite hints.

In Mozilla, it comes across as unformatted text. Bummer. Back to IE.

Also, I don't know if it's my system at the moment or Mozilla, but Mozilla is slooooower.

My larger problem is how to get stuff into word processes from html with the minimum of fuss. Whole pages seem to be easier saving from IE as html, opening from Word and converting tables to text and dumping all the extraneous information. I use this primarily to save mlti-part tutorials.



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Copying from Mozilla
Authored by: seedy on Jun 07, '02 11:37:32PM

1) Are you using the 1.0 final build? If so, it may be that your prefs file is getting old. Sometimes I just drag the Mozilla folder out of ~/Library
then let Moz make a new one and then replace my bookmarks and mail. Unfortunately, I lose all my settings as well, so I only do this if there's a dire issue (like it won't start up).

2) I cut/paste all the time from Mozilla but use Apple's TextEdit, which will format nicely unless you've checked "Ignore HTML" in the prefs. It's very handy, because each time you click the dock icon you get a new blank. Doesn't save things like typesize and font, but does preserve the text in a readable format, with no stranded lines and no need for a text cleaner (what fun THAT used to be!). Just used it last night to grab some Alan Watts articles. I like reading in TextEdit because I can control the typesize and font, esp. for long stuff.



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Chimera 0.30 is even FASTER!
Authored by: Jacques on Jun 08, '02 12:17:30PM

Chimera is now up to v0.30, go here to download:

<http://chimera.mozdev.org/>



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