Friday, March 10, 2006
Tech: Camino, Firefox for OS X
Camino is a native Mac OS X browser that uses Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine. The latest 1.0 release is a quite nice. The most notable difference is the speed, it's even faster than Apple's Safari. I do miss Safari's 'Snapback' feature though, some times it's just a little annoying to type in the same search again ( especially if you have a slower Mac ). Another thing I noticed was that Camino's menubar support favicons. This is a nice touch, but I wish you could disable some or all of the favicons to save space. In addition to being able to block popup windows, Camino can also block ads such as Google AdSense in pages.I did run into one issue where Camino would have trouble connecting to VNC server shares. I also had issues when trying to use Camino with eGroupware, the page would timeout during login. Other than these quirks, I would highly recommend trying Camino out.
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