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Re: Dumping Safari. Going to Camino.

Tim F. — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:31:13 -0000

Monkey see, monkey do... So I downloaded Camino and gave it a shot.

I like the fact that there's a flash blocker built in. I loved the firefox extension... and the built-in tab preferences seem to be a little more robust. The selling point, though, was Keychain integration.

Now here's two things I don't like about it:

Two of my favorite add-ons (aardvark and Foxmarks) are not available for Camino. I can deal with not having aardvark, and maybe at some point I can figure out how to write a "Camilinks" add-on that would be similar to foxmarks.

Then I have the problem with google reader that Daniel was fussing about before -- when I view an article, the tab comes to focus, which takes me away from my reader session (regardless of how I set the "Load in background" option). It's rather annoying.

So much for that. I'm using Camino for this post and I probably won't use it again for a while, but I'm not going to remove it from my laptop. I think if I could figure out the reader problem and write that Camilinks addon, It would kick ass.

Re: Dumping Safari. Going to Camino.

Maxo — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:24:04 -0000

Is the problem that Word Press is not W3C compliant or that Safari is not properly rending the code?

Re: Dumping Safari. Going to Camino.

Jake Dahn — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:34:15 -0000

I've gone back and forth between camino and safari for about 2 years now. I generally would use the camino nightlies which would break and send me back to safari, then safari would do something wrong so I'd go back to a newer nightly.

The reason I don't use firefox is because I'm on a ppc mac, and it's horribly and slow. I do believe that in firefox 3 they're adding cocoa widgets, so it should be just as fast as camino with the rest of the firefox goodness.

As for flock, it's not light at all, it's firefox with extra extensions. I did ~6 months of volunteer QA for them when they had spirit, back in the day :D

Re: Dumping Safari. Going to Camino.

Vishnu — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:44:11 -0000

You can also try flock.you will find it light and pleasing.

Re: Dumping Safari. Going to Camino.

Jon Henshaw — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:06:43 -0000

Ha! All I can say is been there, done that (several times). I predict you will be back on Firefox within a month -- 2 months max ;)