Note: This page is unrelated to the Chimera project started at Mozilla to demonstrate that the Gecko rendering engine could be embedded in a Mac OS X Cocoa application. Camino is the successor to this project.
Chimera was a web browser that was originally created in 1993. It was originally created for Unix workstations and used the Xaw widget set. As time progressed usage of the browser decreased and eventually dwindled away[citation needed], and attempts to compile the browser today with modern compilers will fail unless the application's sourcecode is changed or appropriately updated sources are found, due to compiler syntax changes since the browser was released, and the unmaintained state of the sourcecode not keeping up with these changes.
Chimera will crash (SIGSEGV / Segfault) on many websites due to a PNG rendering bug; for example Google's homepage will load, but search result pages will crash the browser because they contain references to PNG images.
