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CaminoBrowser.org Launches

Posted by timothy on from the pinstripeyness dept.

Samuel Sidler writes "Introducing CaminoBrowser.org, the new Camino project site. The pages have been completely revamped with up-to-date information, useful and easy-to-read support pages, and, of course, pretty pictures. Months of effort have gone into creating a truly excellent site. While the product pages will remain hosted at mozilla.org, our new website will be the home of the project and all support/development information as well as up-to-date news and information."

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  1. Re:Boo. by Kraeloc · · Score: 2, Informative

    Safari, especially the version that run on 10.2, is slow as a dead dog. Camino is fast, very fast, and positively blazing compared to Safari. Ya damn troll.

  2. Integrated Services by ravenspear · · Score: 5, Informative

    Camino has built in support for a lot of the system wide OS X features like Keychain, the spell checker, Address Book, most of the cocoa services, and probably a few others I'm forgetting.

  3. Re:Why? by squiggleslash · · Score: 2, Informative
    Camino's better integrated with OS X and probably fractionally lighter on the resource requirements. Integration can mean more than you think - until relatively recent nightly builds, the OS X version of Firefox didn't support the middle mouse button, for example.

    OS X manages things like proxies and other network settings as part of the OS, so you can relatively easily (but not seamlessly, alas) switch from Ethernet to WLAN to modem connections just by selecting the configuration you're using from the Apple menu. Firefox doesn't pick up the proxy settings itself if you do this. Camino would.

    Now, that said, Camino isn't compatable with Firefox's plug-ins, and I don't know about you but I've found it's gotten hard to browse without Adblock and Flashblock having tried them. (Hacks to add crippled functionality similar, but not really, to the two are usually quoted when I mention this, but the full blown "I want to be able to get a flash animation to start only when I click it" and "I want to be able to easily add wildcards to my ad blocking script" functionality just isn't present with these "answers.")

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  4. Check this on the Mozillazine forums by SPY_jmr1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    For everyone who thinks Camino is speedy versus Firefox and Safari, you should search the mozillazine forums for arch optimized nightlys of it... The closest comparation I can make is when the roadrunner goes "Beep-Beep" and leaves the coyote in the dust. :P

  5. Re:Firefox doesn't cut it by lucas+teh+geek · · Score: 2, Informative

    about:config
    mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action = 0
    mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.numlines = 0

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  6. Re:Ok, we have clones by QuantumG · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, that's a pretty good idea! I was going to respond that there is no way I could find the paper in question but I think I did :) There's a number of other papers that cover the same sort of studies that are cited on that page too.

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  7. choice for old Macs by BibelBiber · · Score: 2, Informative

    This browser is certainly the best choice if you have Panther on something like an iBook 500 with just about 400MB Ram. Safari tends to be slow, FF doesn't scroll well and is too heavy for my system (and doesn't feel right under OS X) So Camino does really do a nice job. And if you feel that 0.8.2 is too old, why not use a nightly. They work perfectly most of the time.

  8. Re:Firefox doesn't cut it by dimator · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's at least one extension that works pretty well under Camino, and once I installed it, Camino became a lot more responsive on my old-ish iBook. It's flashblock, and since I hate pretty much all flash, especially all the ads, this has been a great addition.

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  9. A little history. by Xenex · · Score: 5, Informative
    "So why write an entire browser instead of adding native widgets to the Mac port of Firefox?"
    That's not what happened.

    Camino (then Chimera) was first released in January 2002. Firefox (then Phoenix) was first released in September 2002, and said this about the Mac:
    Where's the mac version?
    There is no mac version. While Phoenix could be made to run on Mac without much trouble, we see no point in competing with Chimera. Chimera is the lightweight, standalone Mozilla browser solution for Mac OS X. We have received requests for a Mac classic version, and are considering the idea.
    Not until Firebird 0.6 in May 2003 was the Mac was officially supported. If you're going to 'blame' a project for duplicating effort, don't blame Camino.

    Also, an amusing aside: Dave Hyatt started both the Chimera and Phoenix projects. Now he works fulltime at Apple on Safari...
  10. Re:The three minute test... by Nastard · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm replying to you, but really, this is for everyone who complains about no flash/popup/ad/whatever blocking in Safari, as well as lack of serious tab control.

    Saft

    PithHelmet

    Yes, they cost money. Yes, they are worth it. No, I don't care if Firefox can do this for free.

  11. Re:The three minute test... by sootman · · Score: 2, Informative

    >Safari:
    >-No way to block annoying Flash popups

    It won't fix everything, but a custom /etc/hosts file like this one will kill a lot of ads, including lots of Flash. Takes a bit of work on OS X--you can't just 'sudo cat hosts.txt >> /etc/hosts', you have to 'sudo -s' and actually *be* root before you add their hosts file to yours. Not sure why, but once it's working, it's great.

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