Comments on: Why I Like Camino 2.0 over Safari 4

By: Ralph S

Ralph S — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:24:30 +0000

I’ve been using Camino for years and also have preferred it over Safari and even FireFox. Not to mention that it’s latest 2.0 release still runs on some of my older sawtooth G4 powermac’s even though I run it on my main computer an Intel Dual Core Mac Pro. I love it’s interface and overall clean mac look. Safari to me doesn’t look like a mac browser anymore, and Firefox looks to me like a Safari clone. It’s nice that you don’t have all those plugins from Firefox to load and keep updating with every release. Camino is what a browser should be, for surfing the internet, and does so efficiently. Once it adds full html 5 & CSS 3 support it will be perfect!

By: Paul F

Paul F — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:14:04 +0000

I love using Camino 2.0 but wish there was a way to sync the bookmarks with Firefox or Safari. I often switch from one browser to another and hate having to go back to a different browser to find that one bookmark. Anyone know of a way to keep Camino in sync with either Firefox or Safari? Xmarks works great for those two, but it doesn’t appear they’re going to add Camino support any time soon.

By: Corny

Corny — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:01:07 +0000

Just wanted to note that the Camino nightlies support live-search (in your bookmarks and history) in the address bar – and it does that even better than Safari since Safari only searches in the URL, but not in the actual title of the bookmark / website.
The developers did their best to prevent the auto-completion / live-search from slowing Camino down. I don’t even notice a slight slowdown and it feels at least as fast as Safari.
Also, thanks for the article!

By: Kilochfuller

Kilochfuller — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:57:51 +0000

Yeah really we seriously need a franken-browser with features of all of these browsers, hopefully Chrome is going to be that. I hope the internet-gods that is Google with come up with an answer quick for macs. I haven’t actually tried chromes myself. Ha! Hypothetical Mac netbook, may just be a reality thanks to the awesome community of Hackintosh. Check it out: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/05/eight-months-with-a-hackintosh-netbook-conclusion-fantastic/

All very interesting.

By: Parimal Satyal

Parimal Satyal — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:45:43 +0000

@Omid:
I tried Chrome on a Windows machine and I really liked it. It seems to render pages well (and fast!), have a low footprint and be non-intrusive. I haven’t used it enough to see how it handles bookmarks, feeds etc yet though. The Mac beta is rather unstable/incomplete at this point, I’ve heard, but maybe I’ll give it’ll be worth poking around with.

And yeah, favicons don’t exactly fit in with the current consistent UI, but given their importance, I think it isn’t impossible to integrate them into the experience. If iTunes can integrate album art, Safari can integrate favicons.

True that the lighter, airier UI in Camino would make favicons ’stick out’ less. And I like the effect. There are bunch of little things that make Camino great as the quick go-to browser. On the hypothetical Mac netbook, I would run Camino. Or Chrome, but it seems we’re a while from that.

I think the unified address bar and search is an excellent idea, and in Chrome is absolutely smooth. It searches not only titles, but body text as well. And most importantly, does so very fast! Firefox is excellent, a browser to rule them all at the moment. The unified address bar and quick bookmarking is a huge part of that, I think.

Google Chrome will be important. Keeping an eye on that!

By: Omid Mikhchi

Omid Mikhchi — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:35:51 +0000

So I downloaded Camino 2.0, and it does allow favicon only bookmarks in the bookmark bar, and I think it works well aesthetically because the forward,back, refresh, and home buttons are in color (in fact they follow RGB). But the same would not be true in Safari where the color scheme is gray, white, and black.

I also like that Camino has a preference for disabling flash by default unless clicked or on a white-list. I currently use clicktoflash for safari for this functionality.

But what’s your take on having one unified address and search bar like google chrome?

By: Omid Mikhchi

Omid Mikhchi — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:14:35 +0000

Nice overview of these Mac web browsers, hopefully soon you can add Google Chrome to this list when it comes out.

I admit I would love a recently closed tab’s feature and color coded view source in Safari, but I don’t know if I could give up the WebKit engine or the MobileMe bookmark synching that I use between my two Macs and iPhone.

As for having favicons in the bookmark-bar I’m sure it doesn’t bode well with the Steve Jobs-esque design principles of Apple. But I would love a Bookmark-bar that would allow me to just show the favicon of a site without any text.