Anyone even use Camino?

[wako]

Only reason why I ask about this is because everyone raves about Safari and FireFox. Both great browser and I would definately perfer FireFox over Safari, but it seems like most people only talk about those two and Camino seems to not get any credit.

I personally use Camino on my Mac because its much lighter and starts up much quicker. Also it seems to me that it is able to load pages much faster.

 

[mkrishnan]

Both great browser and I would definately perfer FireFox over Safari, but it seems like most people only talk about those two and Camino seems to not get any credit.

Well...credit... Camino and FF are very close sisters, after all...

I think Mozilla downplays Camino in order to create the consistent vision of Firefox -- cross-platform from their perspective is very important. More important to have a good but consistent experience, than a great but unique one. And I think you have to give them credit... they are doing more in the fight to kill MSIE than anyone else, except, perhaps, unwittingly, MS.

Also I think in the long, long term, Camino and FF will probably merge back together, with the Camino project informing FF on how to be Mac-appropriate, and FF bringing in enough to make the cross-platform experience consistent.

 

[mileslong]

very well put krishman as usual. im a mac user since 1/05, i am a long time firefox user and its tough for me to move away. i am currently trying out camino and using the nightly optimized version. pretty good results fo far. i miss the entensions and themes of firefox though. i use silver skin on firefox i think its the most attractive skin out there now.

i am currently using the deerpark firefox and its tough to tell which is faster between the two. i have never gotten into safari, its way slower than the other two and there is not enough contrast for me on the skin.

im currently in a battle with my girlfriend trying to get her to use firefox on her PC instead of AOL for gods sake! her AOL browser if freakin' pink and blue!!!!!!!

 

[njmac]

For the first issue: A Safari plug-in called Taboo, which Mitthrawnuruodo alerted me to originally. Very simple, very nice.

For your second issue...I'm confuddled. Space and Shift-Space should do exactly what you expect them to in Firefox. They do for me. I could see not using a browser if that didn't work -- I rely heavily on that too. I don't know why they don't work for you. What extensions do you have installed?

Thanks for Taboo, that works perfectly.

I am going to reinstall Firefox, I don't know why that wouldn't work on my mac

 

[danny_w]

Thanks for Taboo, that works perfectly.

I am going to reinstall Firefox, I don't know why that wouldn't work on my mac

I notice the same thing about Firefox and the spacebar not doing anything sometimes. When that happens, I have noticed that the Pageup and Pagedown keys also don't do anything. I was trying to figure out the reason for this, and I noticed today that if I hit the spacebar or the pageup/down keys while the page is loading, the keys don't have any effect and will not until I refresh the page or go to a new page. If I wait for the page to completely load before using the spacebar or pageup/down keys, all seems to work as expected. Could this be what is causing the problem? And if so, does anybody know why?

 

[mkrishnan]

I notice the same thing about Firefox and the spacebar not doing anything sometimes. When that happens, I have noticed that the Pageup and Pagedown keys also don't do anything. I was trying to figure out the reason for this, and I noticed today that if I hit the spacebar or the pageup/down keys while the page is loading, the keys don't have any effect and will not until I refresh the page or go to a new page. If I wait for the page to completely load before using the spacebar or pageup/down keys, all seems to work as expected. Could this be what is causing the problem? And if so, does anybody know why?

This is really interesting. When this happens, do keyboard commands, such as Cmd-T to make a new tab, work? Firefox 1.0.x at some point had a known issue on Macs where certain actions would cause keyboard shortcuts to cease functioning until it was closed and reopened (reboot not necessary, but firefox had to be killed). I wonder if this is related?

 

[danny_w]

This is really interesting. When this happens, do keyboard commands, such as Cmd-T to make a new tab, work? Firefox 1.0.x at some point had a known issue on Macs where certain actions would cause keyboard shortcuts to cease functioning until it was closed and reopened (reboot not necessary, but firefox had to be killed). I wonder if this is related?

Yes, Cmd-T still works, as does Home, but not Spacebar, PageUp, or PageDown.

 

[mkrishnan]

Yes, Cmd-T still works, as does Home, but not Spacebar, PageUp, or PageDown.

Very interesting!

 

[PlaceofDis]

alright, well i am back using Camino because i was starting to notice some slowdowns with Safari, that stupid lag when opening pages gets a bit annoying afterawhile. so if my spelling starts to go down the drain everyone should know why!

 

[GoCubsGo]

I do, not much now but i did for a long time.

 

[osiris315]

Camino = best browser on Mac!

I've been using Firefox since it was known as Phoenix (v0.3 or 0.4 i think) on the PC. Even back then it was so much better and stable than IE. I still use FF on my Dell laptop at work.

Being a recent switcher to Apple (at home), I tried all available browsers. Safari is nice, FF was prettty much the same from the PC but Camino just won me over. It's feels like how they describe it. Mozilla power with Mac style.