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TheGreatPoo:
Hello all,
I downloaded and installed Mozilla 1.1.1 on my g/f's computer (iMac) running OSX Jaguar. Lately it has been crashing and has almost brought the entire system down a couple of times. I don't know personally what goes wrong (as I don't live with her and am trying to explain this from what she has told me) but she told me that it pretty much freezes up everything but the mouse (with the little color wheel spinnie thingie).
Anyway, I was going to help her install another browser on her computer and was wonderin which one I should choose. I like the features that Mozilla has (pop-up stopper, blocking pics, etc.) but would like something smaller and faster as her iMac is only a 4000MHz G3. What about Chimera? Opera?
Also, how would I go about uninstalling Mozilla? I am pretty new to OSX (I'm a classic user myself ;) ) and don't know the runabouts. What I do in Classic is: open Sherlock2, search the HD for all files containing the name of the program, select all, and move to trash. Is there another way in OSX?
Any help is appreaciated very much and rewared with a cookie! :D
psyjax:
Chimera, plain and simple.
Chimera is the best browser available for the Mac. It is Coco native, which mean's it's incredibly fast. It has most of the features you mentiond from mozilla as well as many others. It is also only 6MB.
To remove mozilla just drag it's folder to the trash. To be thurogh, run Find->mozilla. You should dig up it's application support folder. Dump it as well. Done.
Install Chimera and your off. I haven't gone back to Mozilla since Chimera 0.6.
TheGreatPoo:
Just what I needed to know.
Thank you!! :D
cocoamix:
Another vote for Chimera. I haven't used anything else since 0.5 came out.
It's only at 0.6 now, and it just gets better and better. I hope they add real support for browsing history. I have it enabled via a hack, but it's really slow to call up your History in the sidebar. Since it's at yet unsupported, I can't complain too much, esp considering how good it is otherwise.
I just wish they'd add a few Mozilla features like the Site Info option, in addition to site source.
It allows to to grab and save any media from a site, including all embedded swf files, images and sounds.
Pantso:
I have to agree about Chimera. It is by far the best and fastest browser for OS X and eventhough it's only in version 0.6, it is really stable and as I said blindingly fast.
As far as Mozilla goes, I'm using 1.2.1 right now, which seems a lot more stable than the previous version but, unfortunately, still crashes from time to time.
To uninstall Mozilla, just drag the Mozilla folder to the trash and also take a look at the /Users/~someone/Library/Application Support folder for another Mozilla folder and remove it as well. I think the latter one is being used by Mozilla to store your cache, profile etc.
[ December 18, 2002: Message edited by: hoojchoons: Mac Commando ]
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