The End of Chimera?

Mike Pinkerton isn't sure he wants to continue developing Chimera. Mike's the leader of the Chimera project. Chimera is a Mozilla/Gecko-based browser for MacOS X that is JUST a browser: no mail, news, or IRC. It's a lot smaller than Mozilla, faster than Mozilla, but still has tabs.

Unfortunately, Safari is kicking its butt. Safari is much smaller, noticeably faster, and it came from Apple so more people know about it. No tabs, though.

I still use Chimera as my default browser, but if they stop developing it I'll delete it from my system in a heartbeat. I use Mozilla a lot, too (LOVE those sidebars!), and if Chimera dies there's no point in having two gecko-based browsers on my system.

This doesn't make me happy, but I agree with Mike that his efforts would be better spent somewhere else. Apple won this battle, and the Mac market isn't big enough to support a #2. (How odd that we're talking about free software... but the market capital here is not money, it's the personal pride from having lots of users.)

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