Donate to Camino, it'll make you feel better
We Mac users take our web browsers seriously, which helps account for the fact that there are just so many of them to choose from. For my money the top browser on OS X is Camino (though Safari 3 is closing in fast). Camino, as you can see from the accompanying picture here, makes a big deal out of its 'Mac Style,' and it does feel much more at home on a Mac than Firefox does (though the Firefox team is working on that).Camino is free, as are most browsers these days (Ominweb, I'm looking at you), but that doesn't mean you can't chip in to support development. The Camino Project recently announced that they can now take donations. Working with the Mozilla Foundation the Camino Project has setup a way for you to donate money to support the app, and get the added bonus of writing it off on your taxes. Best of all, the Mozilla Foundation will offer a 2 for 1 match until the end of the year, or until the donations reach $10,000, whichever comes first.
If you're a big Camino user be sure to head on over to their donation page and send 'em a few dollars.
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Whenever I try using a new browser on OSX I always come back to Firefox. Not so much because its good, but because it sucks the least.
I primarily use it for development and because it works better than Safari. Even Safari 3 still bugs me. It just doesn't work with everything out there. It has problems with Google Reader and I spend about 80% of my time there.
My biggest complaint with FF is its memory usage and the fact that if I hit a page with a lot of flash on it then the fans in my laptop spin up and don't spin down till I quit the browser.
The search for the perfect browser still continues.
Camino = crud.
November 28 2007 at 11:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI used to love this browser until I took the lead developer's grad course and he gave me a D..... Now, this browser sucks.
November 28 2007 at 1:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCamino with Jon Hicks' "Camino Graphite Icons" running on
OS X Tiger with David Lanham's "Agua" icon sets and UNO (gui.interacto.net) themed windows... very close to interface nirvana.
I'd gladly donate to the continued development of these as a suite. As separate projects I'm less inclined. I guess that's the vagaries of open-source.
I stuck with Camino for a week, and it's actually pretty nice, and much more stable than the current Firefox.
The only reason why I switched back to Firefox was because I like to middle click items on my bookmark bar to open the bookmark in a new tab, the same with items in folders on the bookmark bar. Camino requires command clicking bookmark items to open a new tab, but oddly lets me middle click a link to open it in a new tab.
I'd like to see some Mac web browser allow me to do some bookmark reorganization without going into a bookmark manager, which is a bit much if I only want to move a single bookmark from one folder to another. Firefox for Windows allows this, but not the Mac version.
Honestly this is what Camino needs along with matching certain trivial features that firefox has (LIKE MOVING TABS). However Camino is still an excellent browser that needs a little be more features and little less polish.
November 27 2007 at 5:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI second Shahryar's comment about Foxmarks. If I could do this between all browsers and platforms like FF, I'd easily switch to Camino or any other browser.
November 27 2007 at 5:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySometimes I feel the multiplicity of browsers on the Mac is a sign that there's no clear winner. Which would explain why I'm constantly switching from Safari to Firefox to OmniWeb and back.
November 27 2007 at 5:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyyeah, I like FF strictly for its extensions. I like being able to use Foxmarks to sync between my work PC and my home apples. I'll start using Camino when I can have my bookmarks.
November 27 2007 at 4:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI don't see the point to Camino without Firefox extensions especially since the news release of the Mac OSX version of Firefox 3.
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