Camino vs. Firefox: What's the difference?

[jason2811]

I have been wondering what is the difference between Firefox and Camino. I know that they are both made by Mozilla but what is the difference between them? Which is better? Why would Mozilla make two different browsers? Thanks.

[Monkaaay]

Camino is a Mac OS X only browser developed by Mac OS X developers on Mac OS X. Obviously Firefox has a larger audience. Camino is a bare bones browser not meant to be a full featured as Firefox. If you want extensions and themes, stick with Firefox.

[MisterMe]

I have been wondering what is the difference between Firefox and Camino. I know that they are both made by Mozilla but what is the difference between them? Which is better? Why would Mozilla make two different browsers? Thanks.Camino is a Gecko-based browser in a full-fledged MacOS X application. FireFox is a Gecko-based browser running as an XUL-based app. To most Mac users, the most notable difference is that FireFox accepts extensions, but Camino does not.

I have no idea what Monkaaay means by full-featured browser. The traditional meaning of the phrase referred to such browsers as iCab, Internet Explorer, Mosaic, Netscape Communicator, Netscape/Mozilla/Seamonkey, Opera, etc. The whole point of Firefox is that it is just a browser with non-Web functions functions removed. The one thing that FireFox has that no browser had before is extensions support. Camino follows much the same phiolosophy, albeit without extensions support.

[lOUDsCREAMEr]

Camino is mac only [no Windows, Linux versions + yada yada], more native [those super techie thingies that idk], cannot change the "skin" by default or add/remove extensions as you wish, has safari-like aquafied control buttons [vs Firefox's Linux/Windows-like control buttons], is a bit faster than Firefox.

thats what i know.

[d wade]

ive been doing some reading and such. i was back and forth between the two. i ended up going with camino, and i like it so far. maybe one day i'll decide to download firefox too and give it a shot. for now i like camino alot.

[Nermal]

Camino came first. In some ways, Firefox can be considered a cross-platform version of Camino. As such, it has a larger audience and therefore has extensions etc. that Camino lacks.

[solaris]

jason2811. The main difference is that Camino use Mac OS native Cocoa API's, while Firefox use a cross-platform XUL user interface. With the pro's and con's that follow each of them.
Hence Camino is Mac OS X only, while Firefox is available for most operating systems. Like Mac OS X, MS Windows, GNU/Linux, *BSD, etc...

Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Corporation, while Camino is not.
Camino is a community developed project, with no paid developers. Just like SeaMonkey..

Camino (Chimera) was released 6 months before Firefox (February 2002 vs. September 2002). So you better ask the Mozilla Corporation why they decided to develop a new Mac OS X browser when Camino already existed. ;)


Some reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireFox

[rockstarjoe]

I'm a recent switcher. I love Firefox, but I want to give Camino and Safari a try. One thing I really like about Firefox is the ability to have all of my bookmarks in a bar on the left side of my browser window. I can't seem to figure out how to do this in either Camino or Safari... is it possible? Thanks.