![]() It hasĪlready been posted on Slashdot enough times, Digg more than enough times, similar sites more times than I can count, as This article is aroundĢ years old now (although it has been kept up to date), and has been retired - posting it simply shows how long it took you to find it. But those features will have to be killer.Please stop posting this article on sites like Slashdot, Digg, newspapers, etc. Should Apple surprise us with a killer feature set in Safari when Mac OS X 10.5 ships, Iill consider switching back. Safari will always hold a special place in my heart, and Iill keep it around because itis always a good idea to have more than one browser available for testing and troubleshooting. OmniWeb offers a feature set that goes beyond what I expect from an out-of-the box Web browser, and it fit my work style better than any of the others I tried. Which one, you ask? The answer may surprise you: Iim not going back to my tried-and-true Safari. ![]() Now that Iive completed my month-long tour through other browsers, Iim free to use the browser of my choice. Camino feels to me like a 1.0 product with lots of potential, and Iim looking forward to seeing how this browser evolves. It didnit wow me, but it didnit piss me off, either. My overall impression of Camino was indifferent. Finally, it was stable - it didnit crash all week. Second, I can tell this is a browser coded for the Mac, not ported from some alternative OS. Where Safari, Firefox, and OmniWeb all gracefully send RSS to my favorite news reader, NewsMac Pro, Camino simply displays the RSS code in a browser window.Īnd after that bout of negativity, I really need to share some more of Caminois positive features: First, overall navigation in the browser felt easier and smoother than Firefox. One feature that Camino totally shocked me with was its RSS support. But from a productivity standpoint, that wastes my time, and time is money. Since I use that as a visual cue to see which application is active, I found myself clicking on different parts of the Camino application window to make sure it really was active.įrom a cosmetic standpoint, thatis just an annoyance. Sometimes the window scroll bar wouldnit switch from inactive gray to active blue when I clicked in Caminois window. Occasionally Camino would go to town on my PowerBookis processor, but for most of the week, it played nicely with my other applications.Ĭamino also suffered from the same redraw issue I experienced in Firefox. Overall performance was acceptable with processor usage typically hovering around 10 percent. The same Web page rendered in Camino, however, did have a more Mac-like look than in Firefox. I kind of figured I would have that problem since Camino and Firefox share the same rendering engine. Just like Firefox, some Web pages rendered incorrectly with text, graphics, and buttons overlapping. But unlike Opera, I never had to break rule number 3 and launch another browser. Web page rendering times seemed much slower than they should have been, and occasionally I thought a page load had stalled only to be surprised when it magically appeared - just as I was getting ready to launch Safari to see if there was a problem with the site. Pop-up and pop-under ads, however, get in my way, impede my productivity, and have never ever contained an ad that I was even remotely interested in. I have no problem with Web sites using advertising to generate revenue - everyone has to eat. I know it prevented many pop-ups from executing, but even still, lots of pop-up and pop-under windows opened just as the site coders intended. Pop-up window blocking worked marginally. As you open more and more, however, the tabs become so small that you can only see the associated favicons. Like most other browsers, Camino displays its tabs horizontally across the top of your browser window, which works just fine when you only have a few sites open. It worked like a charm, and really helped to make Camino more usable. In fact, I used Firefoxis Command-Option-arrow shortcut a couple of TMO readers clued me in on to move back and forth through tabs in Camino. The application interface worked in a very similar way, browser tabs where pretty much the same, and keyboard shortcuts were the same as well. Impressions In many ways, when I was using Camino, I felt like I was using Firefox.
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