Comments on: Camino, getting brisker and better

By: nomad

nomad — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:50:02 +0000

You guys are living in the stone ages, Opera browser is clearly the best of all browsers. Try it out, you'll never go back to your old browser.

By: Camino versus Firefox at Wired Gecko

Camino versus Firefox at Wired Gecko — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:46:36 +0000

[...] of those fans is Om Malik (one of my favourite bloggers and podcasters) who describes himself as an "unabashed" fan of Camino. I decided to try Camino again (I had it installed on my last hard drive) and installed [...]

By: Arun

Arun — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:11:12 +0000

I do remember Steve Jobs on the release of iPhone saying that Safari is the best browser in the world. And now its comfortably overtaken by Firefox. No XUL really disappoints me.

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By: Greg Fuhrmann

Greg Fuhrmann — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:21:34 +0000

One nice feature in Camino is that you can turn off web ads (not just popups) in preferences.

By: Reinier

Reinier — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 21:55:38 +0000

Camino is a wonderful browser. Although Firefox offers me a lot of great tools I use at work, like Firebug and Chris Pederick's web developer extension, sometimes I just need the simplicity of Camino when I am just browsing around the Net.

Great to see that Samuel Sidler is taking time to help users out in this thread of comments.

By: Bob Weston

Bob Weston — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:13:10 +0000

Actually, Camino is the elder brother of Firefox.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 03:42:29 +0000

I love Camino, but it tends to hang onto the cache like a pit bull to your throat. To be honest, I should probably be using an RSS reader instead of opening whole folders of tabs at once, but I do regularly see stuff from two weeks previous. But in all other respects, I'm ready for the big C to go 1.1…

By: Samuel Sidler

Samuel Sidler — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:54:00 +0000

falcon: The Real Player bug is a known issue. You need to upgrade your version of Real Player. See the first known issue of our release notes:

http://www.caminobrowser.org/releases/1.0.3.php#issues

By: falcon

falcon — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:50:21 +0000

Camino is my browser of choice as well. Unfortuantely it crashes once every couple of days. If I try to play any real audio stuff, it crashes immediately.

I use it mainly becuse I can search for text using '/' key. Also because, by now, my book mark panel is 5.5 lines long :)

I'm glad they are adding spell check, although I should've known that I can use OSX's spell check (hey I'm still new to the Mac)

By: Samuel Sidler

Samuel Sidler — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:24:38 +0000

Se7en, I'm glad you enjoy Camino. :) For Bugmenot, feel free to use their bookmarklet. If you use the latest nightlies of Camino, you can even put the bookmarklet in your bookmark bar and use a shortcut key to reach it. We've mapped cmd-1 through cmd 9 to the first 9 (non-folder) bookmarks on the bar. That's almost as good… :)

pwd: This question comes up often and the answer is always "no". Firefox for Mac will [probably] always have a XUL interface (see Simon's comment above), which doesn't look, feel, or act in the same way a standard Cocoa interface does. Dave Hyatt, the original creator of Camino (then Chimera) and one of the original creators of Firefox (then, Phoenix), said it best:

"Let 100 browsers bloom. Let 100 schools of thought contend."

We all have different ideas and follow different paths. Why should we all use the same browser? :)