Camino

A lot of people who want to switch from Safari choose Firefox. There are some great reasons to do that, like the web developer toolbar. But ironically, I think a lot of Firefox’s Mac mindshare is a side effect of the gains it’s making (for good reasons) on Windows IE. Clearly it’s the best choice for most Windows users and most Linux/Unix desktops as well. But on the Mac there are other good ones.

I’ve been using Camino as my main browser for a couple months now. Camino is sort of a forgotten browser on OS X, but for me it is the best available combination of a nice UI (pure Aqua), standards compliance (Gecko), and open source. Plus it doesn’t suffer from Safari’s weird performance glitches with long bookmark lists and with autofill. Check Camino Update to gauge momentum. They’re shooting for a 1.0 release this fall.

Carlo Zottmann commented on Sun Aug 14 07:46:32 2005:

I would change to Camino from Firefox any minute IF the browser would allow me to use or write extensions for it.

Paul Bissex commented on Sun Aug 14 21:14:23 2005:

Yeah. The functionality and developer buzz would be nice. We do have some customization options in the form of CamiTools. (Which also demonstrates that one can write extensions, it’s just harder!)