Camino?

Alex King brought up Camino as the best mac browser and I really beg to differ.

Oh happy day! A patch has finally been submitted that enables accesskey support for Camino.

When a nightly is built that includes this patch, Camino will be the Best Mac Browserâ„¢, period.

I don’t really get why Camino would be the the greatest browser for the mac. Yes, it is the best browser if that is all you do, browse websites, but it does not support XUL like Firefox. So there is no expandability.

The best part of Firefox is:

http://chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper

http://www.iosart.com/firefox/colorzilla

http://editcss.mozdev.org

Just these few firefox extensions make Firefox so much more productive then Camino I can’t figure out why he would say that about Camino.

Productivity aside Camino is a great browser, fast and accurate but you could get almost the same experience from Firefox. Or even Safari webkit. I will probably comment more on this or post a review of all the browsers, at least give some good links.

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June 25

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  • Brian
    I tried downloading new themes for Firefox but none of them fix the internal renderings of the program. The thing mac users don't like is the submit buttons that look like half-ass attempts at 1997 browser buttons and other internal elements.

    Its a web browser... thats what you do with it.
  • Charles
    I don't think camino is better. The only arguments put forward by Camino users is the fact that it is written in Cocoa and that Firefox does not look like a native OSX application.
    As long as the browser work, why focus on the Cocoa issue? It makes no difference to the end user. And as far as feel is concerned, just download the right theme, Grapple has developped a number of them which makes Firefix at home with OSX.
    The result? Firefox way above Camino, the extensions are now a must have of any browsing experience. I wonder why Mozilla do not focus on Firefox for OSX a bit more and less on Camino...
  • Well, on MAJOR reason is that Camino uses native Mac controls, making it much more pleasant to use. Firefox controls look horribly out of place in OS X.

    I completely agree that Firefox is the best browser for web development.
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