Chimera Nightly Builds Arrive!

[googolplex]

There are now going to be Chimera nightly builds! .

5/31/2002
We now have a branch of the mozilla tree for Chimera. The Chimera tree is a branch of the Mozilla 1.0 release branch. We will not be coming back to the trunk until after Chimera 1.0 is released. This way we can guarantee stability in the layout engine and mozilla tree while we hammer out the rest of the GUI and hone the layout engine patches for ATSUI and plugins.

What this means is that you can now build Chimera without having to apply any patches, since the Chimera mega-patch has been checked into the branch. We are also now producing nightly builds, and we will have tinderboxen monitoring the Chimera branch soon. Remember, although these nightly builds will have a version number on the splash screen, they should not be considered to be official releases. When you go to grab this most recent nightly, it's going to claim to be Chimera 0.3. It isn't. It's just the latest snapshot on the way to 0.3.

You can grab nightlies from this ftp subdirectory.

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/chimera/nightly/latest-trunk/
With the advent of nightly builds (thank you Brian and Patrick!), we will probably slow down the frequency of milestone releases. Rather than releasing 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, etc. we will probably just move to a milestone-driven model, releasing 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, and so on up to 1.0 candidates.

Also, mozdev is no longer being used for bugs. Bugzilla is now being used for bugs. Do not file bugs in mozdev. File them with http://bugzilla.mozilla.org. Chimera has its own product in bugzilla now. Do not file Chimera bugs on the Mozilla browser product!

I'd encourage people spamming the mailing list to check out the message boards at http://chimera.eternaltedium.com. The board there is well-organized, and I'm reading that now instead of reading the mailing list, so I'm not even going to see anything you post to the mailing list from now on.

That's about it. Dave

[dricci]

Nice, hopefully we see more development progress now.

[BlingBling 3k12]

can someone please gimme some chimera screenshots! i asked this somewhere else but noone will gimme some!

[phatsharpie]

Awesome!

[starfleetX]

BlingBling 3k12:
Why don't you just download it and see for yourself?

Until then, maybe this will suffice:

http://brad.project-think.com/images/ChimeraSnap001.png
http://brad.project-think.com/images/ChimeraSnap002.png
http://brad.project-think.com/images/ChimeraSnap003.png
http://brad.project-think.com/images/ChimeraSnap004.png
http://brad.project-think.com/images...torSnap001.png
http://brad.project-think.com/images...torSnap004.png
http://brad.project-think.com/images...torSnap005.png
http://brad.project-think.com/images...torSnap006.png
http://brad.project-think.com/images...torSnap009.png
Yes, the stripes are missing from some of those pics because I was using a stripe-less theme at the time.

and lastly:

[BlingBling 3k12]

Originally posted by starfleetX
BlingBling 3k12:
Why don't you just download it and see for yourself? :confused

no mac (except for that 75MHz one in my sig... but it isn't net accessable yet)

[googolplex]

Hiding the personal toolbar isn't working for me...

[Drizzt]

Originally posted by googolplex
Hiding the personal toolbar isn't working for me...

I don't think they've enabled you to be able to turn it off yet. I'd really like to as well since I never use it. I also wish that they'd let the prefs be editable since they're adding a few more prefs w/ the nightlies, yet everytime I configure them just as I like, they reset themselves next time I start the browser up.