I started using Mozilla a long time ago on Mac OS X, even though IE came with the OS. It is FAR faster and has far fewer bugs than IE.
Then Chimera/Camino (which uses the Gecko engine with a native Mac front end) came along, and really set the bar for start-up, rendering speed and elegance. It was the most popular browser on the Mac for a brief period of time (until Apple released the first Safari beta).
So... the open source makers of Camino didn't need any private access to the OS to make a browser than blew IE out of the water.
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I started using Mozilla a long time ago on Mac OS X, even though IE came with the OS. It is FAR faster and has far fewer bugs than IE.
Then Chimera/Camino (which uses the Gecko engine with a native Mac front end) came along, and really set the bar for start-up, rendering speed and elegance. It was the most popular browser on the Mac for a brief period of time (until Apple released the first Safari beta).
So... the open source makers of Camino didn't need any private access to the OS to make a browser than blew IE out of the water.