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Found Footage: Google Tech Talk on Camino
Over at the Office Google Mac Blog, Mike Pinkerton, Google Mac Team Software Engineer, just announced a Google Tech Talk he gave back in January. Now the reason this is of interest is that Pinkerton also just happens to be the project lead for the Camino web browser and the talk he gave (as part of Google's Open Source Developers series) discusses the history of the Camino and Mozilla projects back from the Netscape days, as well as some future plans for Camino.Check it out over at Google video (where else?)
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
wWw said 1:16PM on 3-03-2007
Camino is awight..
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Fraser Drew said 1:38PM on 3-03-2007
One thing i;ve never understood/ liked about camino... One of firefox's best features is that if you type in TUAW, BBC, or even something small like my rugby club (ABBEYRFC) into the address bar, it will find the page 99% of the time; it does this by searching google for the best result. I really want to know why camino lacks this great feature. This is the only reason i haven't switched from FF to Camino!
Anyone here have an explanation/workaround?
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kurtis said 1:50PM on 3-03-2007
Fraser, install the morecamino plugin and that allows you to search "I'm Feeling Lucky" from the address bar
http://pimpmycamino.com/parts/morecamino
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Fraser Drew said 2:06PM on 3-03-2007
thanks:)
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ARG said 2:46PM on 3-03-2007
The only plus I see in Camino is the fact that it's a Cocoa app. Firefox beats it everywhere else. A few things I don't like are...
I can't middle click the home button, or my bookmarks in my toolbar.
No extensions, including search extensions, and the CMD-K shortcut to bring you to the search bar does not work.
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ARG said 2:48PM on 3-03-2007
Oh, and I forgot instant search. Firefox's instant search is enough for me to stick with it alone.
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niclet said 3:52PM on 3-03-2007
Thanks for the link Mat, it was very instructive.
I feel very comfortable with Camino and I use it for years. For me it still the fastest and the simplest,. It doesn't have any radio, microwave or neither make coffee and that's what I like! I just wanna browser to... browse the Internet.
Ho! and thanks for the cue kurtis, I didn't knew about the morecamino plugin.
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Manuel de la Pena said 4:50PM on 3-03-2007
Ok, from a cs point of view is by far one of the most interesting things I've listen to recently. I love how he explains the problem with open source projects and how you have to take care of user. Is a A++conference.
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Justin said 8:12PM on 3-03-2007
The reason I don't use camino most of the time is downloadthemall and VideoDownloader the firefox plugins that let me 1) download all of a certain type of file linked on a page and 2) grab flash videos from YouTube and Google. Also I've never figured out how to make favicons last more than a few weeks in the bookmarks toolbar on camino.
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Scynn said 9:52PM on 3-04-2007
@#5 - CMD+SHIFT+F to bring you to the search bar (or show the 'Search the Web' Dialog if you prefer to browse with the toolbar hidden).
@#6 - If by 'instant search' you mean 'find as you type' it is done in camino by simply pressing '/' and then typing.
Arg: you should try looking at the caminobrowser.org website some time. both can be found here: http://www.caminobrowser.org/support/docs/shortcuts/
@#2 - Also on the website, and only 2 clicks from the first page:
http://www.caminobrowser.org/support/hiddenprefs/
Enable Search from the Location Bar
When you enter an incorrect URL, Camino will display an error page. However, some users prefer for Camino to search (using the default search engine) for what they incorrectly entered. This can be done by adding the following code to your user.js file:
// Enable Location Bar Search.
user_pref("keyword.enabled", true);
To change the search engine used by this preference, modify the value of the keyword.URL preference.
You can also search from the location bar using bookmark keywords. For information on bookmark keywords, see the Bookmarks documentation.
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Paul D said 12:59AM on 3-05-2007
I have a suggestion for the future of Camino. Make it work with Japanese (and Chinese) websites again like it used to. Font support is hopelessly broken in the new betas.
Kind of sad, since they actually have an official Japanese Camino site that's unusable in the new versions of Camino.
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Biffo said 7:02AM on 3-05-2007
If Camino allowed you to Ctrl-Tab (or any other shortcut) to flick to one tab and then back to the original one again, or scroll through the list, I'd be on it full time.... This is something I use all the time in Firefox, kind of like Cmd Tab for apps.
I actually really dislike FF on the Mac and would much rather go back to Camino, but this is one thing which I find I just can't do without...
I've been on the forums about this, but the developers seem to have other priorities, which I can understand :(
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Electric Sheep said 10:17AM on 3-05-2007
Wow, that Tech Talk video was fantastic! I actually watched the whole thing and was deeply engrossed the entire time. I learned quite a bit about the back story of Nutscrape/Firefox/Camino. Here I've been using (and loving) Camino exclusively for a year now and had no idea about its beginnings!
Very cool, thanks for posting this.
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