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The other Free Software options:
http://www.konqueror.org/
http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/
http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/
http://www.caminobrowser.org/

And the non-free ones, like Opera is...
http://www.apple.com/safari/
http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/

...on the Mac. Not that I'm complaining about it. Camino works just fine for me.

I'm trying out Camino 1.0 on my new Dell Mac and I noticed that its search bar inserts "sourceid=mozilla2" into the query string. I wonder why they chose that instead of just "mozilla" or even just "firefox" since Camino is based heavily upon Firefox code?

I don't use Safari because it doesn't render pages as well as a mozilla based browser, and now I have a reason to gloat :)

Get Camino here. Camino is an OS X native browser using the gecko rendering engine. Looks better than Safari, is faster than Safari, and apparently is more secure than Safari. Plus the security is more easily tunable.

Most Mac users have heard of it by now, but I'm just giving them another plug because it kicks ass.

Camino puts an end to annoying pop-up windows and advertisements, which makes surfing the internet a much more enjoyable experience. The built-in annoyance blocking technology stops distractions that get in between you and the information you're looking for.

Most pop-ups are unwanted, but some sites make legitimate use of them. Camino displays an icon in the status bar whenever a pop-up is blocked, allowing users to unblock legitimate pop-ups with ease.

Let's try this again: Camino 1.0 Release Notes

Try again! ;-)

http://www.caminobrowser.org/download/releases/1.0 /

Will be cool to see how this stacks up against the latest Firefox - on OSX I've actually started using Safari more than FF - but maybe Camino will change that. Nice to have options.

Just going through the features tour IE7 appears to have a preference pane for the search box, you can easily choose which search engine to use yourself. I think this is a great idea. I requested the same thing of Apple/Safari through their feedback mechanism, but nothing ever came of it - I'm british so I would rather use google.co.uk or uk.yahoo.com than the google.com that Safari defaults to.

I only use IE6 for compatibility testing at the moment (via Virtual PC) it has a really annoying habit of requiring the 'http://' prefix to urls in the address bar, or sending you to search.msn.com, while other browsers will accept 'www.slashdot.org' and add the prefix themselves. I hope this is changed in IE7 as my next machine will almost certainly be one of HP's Ubuntu laptops which will be set to dual boot with XP.

Camino still has the prettiest buttons :-)

One word: Camino. According to its website, it has fairly good integration with other apps, and still uses Firefox's rendering engine.

Camino is seriously a lot nicer gecko for mac than firefox. It actually integrates with OS X and it uses Cocoa. From a usability standpoint is much further ahead.

If you're on OS X, use Camino. Same core, native development.

I wont be using ff on my powerbook as long as camino is out there.

The latest stable release of Camino has ad-blocking built-in (plus all the Cocoa goodness you get from Safari).

Of course I'll never use FireFox or Opera more than casually since they use their own Windows-style widgets and as a result the Cocoa keyboard commands don't work :-(.

Have you tried Camino?

http://www.caminobrowser.org/

New beta versions out are reportedly spiffy.

They also released 1.0 beta 1 (first 1.0!) hours ago and I am testing it, it really deserves 1.0 version number.

http://www.caminobrowser.org/

Congratulations Camino team!

Firefox -> Safari (yes I know you can run Firefox on OSX, but it's DAMN slow)

How about Camino?

Safari does have memory leaks, but according to David Hyatt's blog, they'll be fixed in an upcoming version.

It's really up to you. You may want to wait until Apple starts putting out hardware with Intel inside, but either way, I don't think that the fear of viruses should be an incentive to avoid considering a Mac. Viruses and insecurities are Windows features that should make you look into alternatives.

There are tons of positive reasons to look into buying a Mac: stability, more secure by design, superior search features, more quality bundled software (iMovie, iPhoto, etc.), native PDF handling, good choice of browsers (I use Firefox, but Safari is also a nice browser, as is Camino), scriptability (Automator, Applescript, shell scripts), graphically superior GUI, and hundreds of other items that aren't readily coming to mind.

Seriously, what out of the box version of Windows allows you to safely host web content (IIS doesn't count, and as far I am aware only ships with the 'server' versions of Windows), login remotely, or transfer files with SFTP?

Try also Camino, especially the 1.9 alpha build, which is faster even than G5 optimised FF.

Ad Blocking is where advertisements (e.g. http://a.as-us.falkag.net/dat/njf/104/slashdot/dev elopers_p1_top_leaderboard.js) in websites are removed before the page is rendered for your eyes. This is essentially the old JunkBuster proxy built into the web-browser.

However, http://www.caminobrowser.org/ has this, and intelligent javascript filters, and it's Free Software.

it's incredible to me that other big projects (e.g. Firefox) are treading the same doomed path today.

That's why Camino exists.

This site best viewed in a Browser That Works Better than Internet Explorer.

...that more people are buying into Apple computers than ever. True, Firefox is available for Mac OS X, but most Mac fanatics such as myself using OS are discovering Camino, which is also produced by Mozilla.

So I guess us Camino users who already suffer from a lack of available extensions at least have an advantage over Safari? Wewt.

Camino is what the Mac incarnation of Firefox should look like.

That said, I'm torn, I like my Mac but I need to use Windows and Linux at work, so I'm pleased to find a browser that behaves more or less the same on all of my computers.

"We advise users to update to this version. It contains several important security fixes as well as various other fixes. Version 0.8.3 is also available in a multilingual version."

http://caminobrowser.org/

Yes. They could have started by not ruining their nice design by using Jpegs for text.
That aside it's a very nice site for a very nice browser.

If you use it for casual browsing and the lack of speed irritates you, this may help.