If you do not know about the Web then try to grab a FAQ from rtfm.mit.edu using ftp. Chimera does not require Motif. A description of the structure of the files in this distribution appears near the end of this file. This will also keep you abreast with the Chimera-2. Display refresh has been substantially optimized.
Image handling improvements speed up rendering, a lot in some cases.
Connection progress is displayed in the Title area. If serious HTML command errors are encountered on a visited page, a small message saying so will appear at the bottom of the page. A page's Title and URL are now restored in many cases where before they weren't. This is not as good as a good 2-pass system, but it does quite well in most of the cases I've seen. The output usually even comes out in columns.