Closed Bug 189819 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

User Support Chimera & Encouragement for the team

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Product:
Camino Graveyard
Component:
General
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: riscky, Assigned: saari)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20030117 Chimera/0.6+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20030117 Chimera/0.6+ This bug is a public decoration that that user base affirms and is solidly behind Mikes 1/7 comments and rejects Mike’s 1/19 blog comments regarding the state of Chimera. While this bug itself is invalid the creation of such bug serves to demonstrate to AOL and Netscape the publics desire to have Chimera around for a long time. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
One last thing the bug is also created to cut down on email from users to Mike and other Mozilla/Netscape/AOL employees.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Chimera development must not stop. I don't use Safari, Chimera is the only browser for me. As Pinkerton said, 2003 will be an interesting year. Let's keep it that way.
CC'ing pinkerton on this. Don't worry, Chimera development isn't stopping, Pinkerton can just be cranky, right Pink? :-)
Chimera is so much better a web browser (and interface guidelines complient) web browser for MacOS X, it would be such a shame to not see it make v1.0.0!!! The few things it is missing are "geek"/developer things (cookie management). I really wish I had time as a developer to contribute myself. I am so sorry that I can't.
Agreed, Chimera can't end like this. It is a good time to stop and look at the project's goals though. Mike is right that Safari looks likely to dominate the dirt simple/fast OSX browser niche, but IMHO Chimera was allways cramping itself to fit into that niche anyway. (open source does not lend itself to products with "simple" interfaces imho) As Jeffery said in comment #4, I'd like to see more "geek"/developer things work their way into chimera. Perhaps you could make soemthing vaguely like iCab but with vastly superior standards support, etc.... If the simple browser niche is full, and you don't want to compete, you can allways find another niche.
Safari for masses, Chimera for geeks and pros :) Keep going, Chimera was first Mac OS browser ever, which i didn't hate .)
Anyone who doubts the vitality of Chimera need only read the archives for the last few weeks of the Chimera listserv. You'll find dozens of "Chimera is the best!" and even more "Chimera Developers are the best!" comments. You'll also find dozens of users debating features - sometimes with tempers and emotions raging. This alone demonstrates the vitality of the user base. We're not going away, so neither will our browser.
Not sure why this got marked "fixed", but anyway: it would be sad to see Chimera go, as it was the first product that proved that Gecko-based browsers don't need to be monsters. It ironically follows Apple's HIGs better than their own product.
I think Chimera is still so much ahead of Safari in terms of usability, compliance, support and even speed (sometimes), that it would be a shame to let it down. It's an awesome project that I'm following since the very first public alpha. Safari isn't there yet and personally I really doubt it could ever replace Chimera for me (it would have a hard time convincing me -- I love Gecko too much)... ;-) Here's hope the project keeps going... as, well... it roxx... 8^]
next time i get depressed i'm only telling my cats.
I figured you would get enough email from your blog and all the stories posted around the web about it... that a filled bug... well just seemed better.
This browzer is 'da coolest! Good jobZ!
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