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Earlier today, the Camino project released Camino 1.0 Beta 1, a major update of its web browser for the Mac OS. There's quite a laundry list of changes since v1.0 Alpha 1, including:Holding the Command key (aka the Apple key) and pressing Tab will cycle through your open applications. It's easier to Cmd-Tab if you are Copy (Cmd-C) and Pasting (Cmd-V) to and from various applications.
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hugh said 8:15AM on 11-09-2005
Is it worth it? Are we about to enter into another Battle of the Browsers?
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stridey said 8:23AM on 11-09-2005
I certainly think it's worth it. Seriously, 1.0b1 is fast and stable. Totally worth checking out.
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mungler said 9:41AM on 11-09-2005
have they incorporated Firefox's RSS stuff yet?
thats the one thing holding me back from adopting Camino full time.
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Mike said 10:04AM on 11-09-2005
Best browser on Mac OS X. If they incorporated RSS I doubt I'd use Safari until it went 3.0.
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Dan said 10:44AM on 11-09-2005
Chimera / Camino was once my preferred browser, and it holds a special place in my heart. I always check up on updates and noticed that this release actually slowed quite a bit from previous builds. Anyone find the same?
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Duncan said 11:23AM on 11-09-2005
I tried it out for 2 days and wasn't so impressed I would drop Opera. All I want is a fast browser and so far that's been the quickest. Also, there is no RSS in Camino. I really wanted Camino to be the one but it was too slow.
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scryber said 12:22PM on 11-09-2005
Does it has support Firefox extensions? That's kind of a deal breaker for me.
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dzot said 12:37PM on 11-09-2005
What are the advantages of/differences between Camino over Deer Park?
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CcntMnky said 12:38PM on 11-09-2005
I agree on the extensions. I'll never go without Adblock again.
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Navypoo said 3:15PM on 11-09-2005
This gets a big "meh" from me. Camino is nice, but since it uses the same exact WebKit engine as Safari, I don't see the point.
I like Firefox precisely because it doesn't use Mac OS X's webkit. Sometimes Camino gets really slow if I have a lot of Safari pages loaded while using other Webkit applications (like Acquisition)
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Thomas said 4:48PM on 11-09-2005
Camino will always be hard to switch to as it's compared to Firefox, but it's not even close to Firefox. It's still missing important features (rss and spellcheck) and without them it'll be hard to convert a lot of people. To bad too as it's great little browser.
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Chris Lawson said 5:56PM on 11-09-2005
Navypoo, wherever did you get the impression Camino uses Webkit? Have you ever actually *used* Camino, or are you just posting to hear yourself talk? Your post made approximately zero sense.
Camino is Firefox done right, if you ask me. Which isn't to say Firefox is bad, just different. If I wanted to run Windows XP apps, I would have bought a Windows box.
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stridey said 7:22PM on 11-09-2005
" I agree on the extensions. I'll never go without Adblock again."
I know this post is old enough that probably nobody is reading the comments at this point, but I thought I'd mention that Camino has built-in ad blocking. So there's no need for an Adblock extension for it.
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eggman said 8:09PM on 11-19-2005
I've tried both the official release and the optimized builds -- why does even a freshly launched Camino use more memory than a three-day-old Opera when there's so much less functionality?
I'd like to switch to a Cocoa-based browser, but one that's fast and usable. :(
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Bud Landry said 11:33PM on 11-28-2005
I've been enjoying the cocoa goodness of Camino for many builds now, but its staying relatively in the shadows has NOT been good for its development. Not only are there far more bell and whistle useful plug ins for firefox, but it is also much easier to automatically install them in firefox. That is the main area where Camino needs to work on parity with firefox.
Which is a shame, because there are advantages to being cocoa native. But even amongst mac users it seemed there were 20 people celebrating firefox for every person that even knew Camino existed. Whappened?
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