CaminoBrowser.org Launches 126
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."
Slick (Score:2, Interesting)
I mainly use Firefox on Windows anyways (as my main browsing experience). Good to see this baby still in development though. I remember how excited I got back in the 0.1 and 0.2 days everytime a new release came out
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Oh, I agree. There's nothing really wrong with it.
But that doesn't mean I want to use it as my default browser. It's just a little too buggy, and not Mac-like enough (both in appearance and in keyboard bindings).
Depending on my mood, I use either Safari or a recent Camino. Camino 0.82 doesn't work well with Google maps, so I tend to use a nightly... until I start to run into problems, then I either go to another nightly or Safari.
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The only thing that's wrong with it on the Mac is the lack of support for the middle button. Middle-button-click-load-in-the-background is invaluable to me. I use it constantly while in Windows at work (Firefox).
BTW, the middle button is supported in Safari and Camino.Re:Slick (Score:1)
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I grabbed today's build and couldn't find anything in the preferences to configure the middle button. The Mozilla build works but not Firefox.
I used firefox-1.0.2.en-US.mac.dmg from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/niRe:Slick (Score:1)
This is more important on Macs than other platforms, I think, because it's o
Re:Slick (Score:2)
So right now I can't say there are any browsers for the Mac that I like. I remember trying Camino long ago, I'll have to download this v
Re:Slick (Score:4, Interesting)
Looking at the screenshots there's lots of improvements since I last saw it (0.7), but on the Mac side, Safari does everything I need.
My only problem with Safari is that it is so noticeably slower on HTTPS connections. I use a G4 at work, and any time I need to use an HTTPS connection I use Camino because Safari drags so much. It's not so noticeable at home where I have a 1.8GHz G5, but when on slower machines (including my mom's iBook), Safari just drags on secure connections.
Ok, we have clones (Score:5, Insightful)
That's one aspect of a web browser, there's dozens more. I kinda feel like tabs are the last real innovation for web browsers. Kinda like cup holders in cinemas. Guess I should be greatful it didn't take 30 years.
Re:Ok, we have clones (Score:5, Insightful)
An easy solution is to flip the history ahead of the current position and insert it before current when the user chooses a new site.
ie (where '-' is current position and the user has come back to site c from site a)
a
b
c-
d
e
when the user clicks on new site f becomes
f-
c
b
a
d
e
because the user just came to c back through b and a, so to them a and b are behind them now.
Rather than starting it again with
f-
c
As Safari does. Perhaps there are other orderings that make more sense - it'd be interesting to see how a lot of people use history, and how the current ones frustrate them - you don't have a link for that paper do you?
Re:Ok, we have clones (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Ok, we have clones (Score:2, Insightful)
Cheers!
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When you go back and forth it becomes more complicated to know where to insert new locations. Most browsers (including Firefox) take the easy way out and throw away all locations forward of the current location in the stack when the user clicks to go to a new site, so the stack of back options is often only a few locat
Re:Ok, we have clones (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:Ok, we have clones (Score:2, Interesting)
Its a native OS X application. If you use Firefox instead, you just have a windows/unix browser on OS X which is 5 years ahead of them.
E.g. Omniweb here, while I write this reply, spell check is in action. It just calls spell check framework of the system.
You wouldn't believe the "services" a mac user uses everyday. For me, a foreigner, its "one click answers" at first place.
Opera does s
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Why? (Score:2)
I guess my question is, why would somebody want to use Camino over Firefox?
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Re:Why? (Score:3, Interesting)
(IIRC) Camino has native widgets. Firefox uses custom ones.
Re:Why? (Score:1)
Yeah, but...so what?
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Re:Why? (Score:2)
No, I still don't get it, and no, I do not write Mac software. I'm an end user. Why should I be expected to know the programmatic reasons behind Camino to answer the question "why Camino over Firefox"?
Of course the custom widgets behave differently. Firefox is supposed to use the same widgets across platforms so it behaves consistently. Is the only difference that Camino conforms better than Firefo
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A little history. (Score:5, Informative)
Camino (then Chimera) was first released in January 2002 [mozdev.org]. Firefox (then Phoenix) was first released in September 2002 [mozilla.org], and said this about the Mac: Not until Firebird 0.6 in May 2003 [mozilla.org] 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 [mozillazine.org] started both the Chimera and Phoenix projects. Now he works fulltime at Apple on Safari [apple.com]...
Integrated Services (Score:5, Informative)
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They say that larger programming teams don't make better products, but I have to argue that, since with good use of CVS and a good bug database, the more people you have fixing bugs the better, so long as you have good
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What you lose (Score:2)
That's the real bummer that prevents me from using Camino.
ExtraPrefs offers an Adblock-a-like, which helps, but some of the other extensions that I no longer care to live without just aren't there.
Re:Integrated Services (Score:2)
I had heard that to use true native components in the browser window (rather than just painting native components to the browser), there would have to be hooks added to gecko. Of course this means as soon as Camino has real native widgets in the browser, so will firefox.
Of course, that may not be true... but still... where are my red squigglies?
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Re:Why? (Score:5, Insightful)
MacOS X has two native API's - carbon [apple.com] and cocoa [apple.com]. Carbon hardly has any virtues of its own, it's main advantage is that its relatively easy to port old, non-Unix Mac applications to Carbon, so whenever anyone has any project that has its roots still in last century, he sticks with Carbon. This is not just the case of various Mozilla-derivative projects but also of - say - Microsoft Office for MacOS. Cocoa is the "native native" API and here's where MacOS X really shines. If you use MacOS X a lot, you tend to hate Carbon and favor Cocoa because Cocoa apps offer much better overall integration with systemwide services, such as your favorite spellchecker, they generally run faster and consume less resources. Camino is Cocoa, Firefox is Carbon.
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One more item (Score:2, Funny)
Unfortunately they forgot to upgrade the bandwidth as well.
Speaking of Gecko Browsers Using Native Widgets... (Score:5, Interesting)
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Huh, weird.
It's just I've never heard of anyone having an attitude quite like that. That is, if Firefox demanded a bunch of crazy shared libraries that all had to be installed, that would blow. But like many applications like it, as well as all the Moz apps that you download from their site, they've got it all linked in there. And they have for years. Ju
Re:Speaking of Gecko Browsers Using Native Widgets (Score:1)
I was initially disapointed as I had become lazy running the fox under win32 and the "click here to install this plugin" goodness.
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It seems that Camino's form elements are keyboard accessible; they just don't all consistently highlight visually to let you know that the keyboard focus is on the element.
Wow, Camino's interface has really gotten better (Score:1)
Now that I can load up my morning webcomics with a single click again, I may actually switch back from safari to Camino.
Also, Safari & Firefox don't l
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Camino's neat, but... (Score:1)
I'm a Firefox diehard, but I find myself still launching Safari on occassion, either due to a neccesaiity (For instance, I don't fee; that DEVONthinks applescripts integrate as well with Firefox as they do with Safari), or just out of the "Wow, it feels so 'lightweight'" feeling that it brings to the table. And this is Firefox we're talking about here! It ain't no slouch when it comes to speed.
In fact, until v1 of Fi
Re:Camino's neat, but... (Score:1, Informative)
Agreed, one nice addition to camino functionality is the the extended preferences found here http://www.nada.de/mac/camino/cep.html [www.nada.de]
The ExtraPrefs include a highly effective CSS based ad-blocking system, as well as features such as the ability to customize search engines, spoof your browser type, image control, window reuse etc.
One nice thing about Camino tabs are their low profile -
Re:Camino's neat, but... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Camino's neat, but... (Score:1, Informative)
On the other hand, the latest nightly builds of Camino support user-defined pref panels making the addition of new features very easy and completely configurable. If you're willing to write it, all those extensions can become pref panels.
Firefox doesn't cut it (Score:5, Insightful)
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mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action = 0
mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.numlines = 0
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I like Firefox, especially for the fact that I can use the same browser on all my apps, but also for the extensions, and wide support among web-developers (it seems to me that Firefox is the second most sup
extentions! extentions! extentions! (Score:2)
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Cool website! (Score:1, Interesting)
Why Camino over Firefox? Camino is faster, uses fewer system resources, and has a beautiful Cocoa front end, meaning that it's GUI and widgets are all Aqua goo
Camino: It's FAST! (Score:2)
I toggle between Firefox and Safari for the most part, but the one thing I love about Camino is it's speed. Firefox, by comparison, feels bloated - and Safari feels slow.
I'm very anxious to see Camino hit the 1.0 milestone. Kudos to the developers.
Woohoo! (Score:2, Funny)
Nice, but I still prefer Firefox (Score:1)
The three minute test... (Score:5, Interesting)
Camino: :-(
+Nicer tabs
+Better scrolling
+Better integration
-No Mozilla extensions.
-So no way to block Flash or images natively
+Much better preference panel
+Pretty close functionality to Safari.
+Fastest of the three, it seems.
Firefox:
-A little glitchy at times
+Very good extensions support
+Works mostly the same as Firefox on other platforms
-Integration with OSX not so good, nor is it supposed to be.
-Slow at times.
Safari:
+Just works
-No way to block annoying Flash popups
Safari works for most things, Firefox works for the rest, and Camino sort of just ends up out there in case the first two don't work.
Re:The three minute test... (Score:2)
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005
I don't know about Safari or image-blocking, sorry.
HTH
Re:The three minute test... (Score:3, Informative)
Saft [softpedia.com]
PithHelmet [culater.net]
Yes, they cost money. Yes, they are worth it. No, I don't care if Firefox can do this for free.
Re:The three minute test... (Score:3, Informative)
>-No way to block annoying Flash popups
It won't fix everything, but a custom
Re:The three minute test... (Score:2)
I'm not anywhere I can test this right now but I can make some suppositions that might or might not hold up.
It appears to me that the problem with your command is that the append redirection ('>>') is being executed by the same shell by which sudo is being executed. This means that it does not have the permissions that are granted by sudo to the child shell that executes the "cat" command. What you would want to do wou
Check this on the Mozillazine forums (Score:2, Informative)
Mozilla Power, Mac Style. Could it get any better? (Score:2)
That aside it's a very nice site for a very nice browser.
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If you don't believe me, ask Zeldman [zeldman.com], or read here [surrey.ac.uk].
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choice for old Macs (Score:3, Informative)
Still sticking with Safari... (Score:2)
Why it has to be so hard to implement this kind of basic functionality? There are at least three bugs in Camino's Bugzilla that are related to this.
No support for PAC (Score:2)
Works with Safari and Mozilla but nothing else so far.
On my OS X machines: Safari, Camino, FireFox (Score:2)
I would like to use FireFox more often, but the hideous Windows interface is unbearable. I can deal with it for a couple of sites every now and then than are broken under the other two, but that is about it.
Camino is a great start, but does not offer the full features of the other two browsers. It would be unusable for day to day use, I think (I am sure there are people that use it day in and day out, but for me it
IDN spoofing still a problem (Score:1)
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Star Wars Episode II (Score:2)
Both have milky white design lines, so...
Chimera reminds me of... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Well... (Score:2)