Camino
Tuesday, 17 April 2007. Apple and Mozilla.
Update:
Camino 1.5 has been released, (06/06/07), with a major upgrade. This review was based on the beta that became 1.5, and contains the same features.
A few days ago, my friend Gary was showing me Ubuntu, (an opensource Unix based Operating System). It was quite interesting to see him buggering around at the command line trying to get dragable 'edges' on his windows. Although this did little to intice me to the free OS world, and reminded me why I moved from Windows to Mac- I wanted the benefits of Unix: stable, flexible, and secure, with the ease and beauty of an Apple designed system. Although I could see that Ubuntu is a powerful platform and a perfectly usable operating system, it didn't make me feel instantly "safe" as OS X.
Anyway, whenever I use a PC I use Firefox for surfing the web, but my girlfriend has recently converted me to Camino. Camino is a browser based on the same rendering engine as Firefox, but with a more native feel to the application, alleged speed increases, and tighter integration into services and features already present on the Mac operating system, such as password management, and local network bookmarking.
I have been flipping backward and forward from Camino and the Mac port of Firefox, but I have decided to leave the Fox for the time being. It was a tough decision, as I have loved Firefox since I first started using it, and held off using Camino for as long as I could. I am still a bit uncertain as to if there is truly any major performance difference between the two applications, but Camino is certainly a less 'bloated' program on the mac.
The current stable release of Camino is promising, although the 1.1 Beta includes improved privacy and security, session saving, and RSS support. I have taken to using the nightly builds, and have found them to be perfectly usable and pretty speedy.
The advert blocking is not as powerful as I would like it to be, but then Firefox needs a few extensions to make it truly lovable. Recent speed tests, have proved that if I want a really fast browser on the Mac, then I am really using the wrong WebKit, but I like the Mozilla way of things, and Camino seems the happy compromise.
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