Comments on: OT: Loving the Camino Browser for Mac

By: Mark Stevens

Mark Stevens — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:20:36 +0000

I've tried every browser around, extensively, and keep coming back to Camino. I've come to grips with the fact that there's no perfect browser, and use Firefox sometimes when working on web design (because of the add-ons Web Developer, MeasureIt, and ColorZilla), but I still use Camino 95% of the time. The only real downside is that I often wake up screaming over the thought that they might bloat it up to compete with Firefox.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:57:16 +0000

Oh, that's a shame – hope that comes along soon.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:56:51 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Smokey. Still loving Camino and using it as my default browser.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:33:23 +0000

The main thing that keeps me from switching to Camino is that XMarks doesn't support it. XMarks is how I keep my bookmarks in Firefox in sync with my iPhone. I run XMarks for both Firefox and Safari, so that my Safari bookmarks are always the same as my Firefox ones, which means my iPhone bookmarks are always the same too.

By: Smokey Ardisson

Smokey Ardisson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:59:13 +0000

Patrick, so glad you're enjoying Camino 2.

Diego, there's an early version of smarter location bar already in the Camino 2.1a1pre nightlies: http://caminobrowser.org/contribute/#nightly

Michael, you're seeing a crash due to corrupt fonts on Mac OS X 10.6; it's fixed in Camino 2.0.1pre nightlies, and we'll have Camino 2.0.1 out soon with the fix, too. We have more information on that and other common crashes people are seeing here: http://caminobrowser.org/blog/2009/#camino2update (Also, it's much better (and certainly simpler) to file a bug or post in the forum about persistent crashes rather than post a 6 minute screencast on youtube and hoping we'll see it )

By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:09:36 +0000

Ouch – watched the screencast. Sorry it's not working for you. I installed via the same method, onto a MacBook Pro. The only major difference – apart from Mac models – that I can think of is that I had no previous version prior to this install, as it's my first time trying out Camino. Hope you get it resolved quickly.

By: Michael Murdock

Michael Murdock — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:12:12 +0000

It's nice in previous versions, but this one crashes right after launch in a clean install (see the movie) hope they fix this one as it's nasty and makes it unusable. Going back to 1.6.10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cc1Bxnypdo

By: Diego Petrucci

Diego Petrucci — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:42:26 +0000

I'm trying Camino and it looks awesome, but there's one thing i am missing and maybe could stop me from switching, and that's the smart location bar introduced with firefox 3.0. I'll try to live without it and see what happens