Erm… Not Quite

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Sheesh. You give an inch, and they take a mile. I pointed out the FOLDOC entry on the UNIX Chimera only as an aside. Clearly, it is not in any way related to the Gecko-based Chimera. Any more than Tim Powell is related to Tim Powell, or Chris Davis to Chris Davis. The UNIX Chimera is a red herring, my friend. It has nothing to do with Gecko. (Although, one has to wonder at the genius of taking a word as a name for your product, when there is already a completely unrelated product with the same name and the exact same function! It’s not surprising, though. After all, a dictionary description of a Chimera sounds a lot like a fire-breathing lizard.)

BTW, my guess, confirmed by a real-world conversation earlier today, is that the Gecko code itself has the name Navigator hard-coded as the browser name. Since Chimera is only at 0.2.8, they probably haven’t worried too much about removing all references to the word in their code-base. I’d say other things are tops on their minds, like speed, stability, and clean display. All of which Chimera excels at, so far.

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