Chimera Browser 1.70 review

Chimera is an X/Athena Web client for UNIX-based workstations

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 355K Developer: Winston Edmond

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Chimera is an X/Athena Web client for UNIX-based workstations. If you do not know about the Web then try to grab a FAQ from rtfm.mit.edu using ftp. Chimera is not built on Motif so does not require this.

Installation:
See ./INSTALL for installation and configuration instructions.
See ./INSTALL.hints for tips on getting it to work in special cases.

What are all these files:
A description of the structure of the files in this distribution appears
near the end of this file.

What's New in This Release:
Chimera 1.70 contains many new features compared to 1.65p1+1:
1) Table support has been vastly improved.
2) mailto:user@host URLs are now supported (via an external Perl script).
3) Display refresh has been substantially optimized.
4) Image handling improvements speed up rendering, a lot in some cases.
5) DNS caching cuts domain name lookup calls by about 90%.
6) Connection progress is displayed in the Title area.
7) The "Host:" HTTP request header has been added.
8) A new toggle button, DeferPix, has been added that turns delayed image loading on and off (or you can type 'i' if you prefer).
9) If serious HTML command errors are encountered on a visited page, a small message saying so will appear at the bottom of the page.

Chimera 1.70 also contains a long list of bug fixes, including these:
Some 20 different memory leaks have been fixed, including all the major ones.
Handling of excess "../"s in a relative URL has been fixed, and URL parsing in general has been greatly improved. The bug that a JPEG image in a file named *.gif would not only fail, but prevent ALL further image display has been fixed. A page's Title and URL are now restored in many cases where before they weren't.