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Camino vs Safari
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The reason I use Camino is because Safari always crashes on me 🙁 Camino seems pretty good for me though =)
mysterytramp
macrumors 65816
Camino seems to be a tad faster on my Mac, but your best bet is just to have multiple browsers and change to suit your whims. You'll decide which you think is superior.
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MisterMe
macrumors G4
Just to be clear. Firefox and Camino are both Mozilla-supported Gecko-based browsers. However, Camino is neither derived from nor is it inspired by Firefox.
SnowLeopard2008
macrumors 604
Safari is still the fastest browser in the world. I don't know why people bother with Firefox, it's about 3-4 times slower than Safari without any additional add-ons. It's not like you use those add-ons every minute you're on the web. Now speed and performance, you use that every single second you're browsing the web.
Camino is kind of meh to me. It's in between Firefox and Safari. It's got Safari's native UI look and Firefox's slow(er) render engine.
Conclusion: Stick with the best. Safari. I don't know about the OP, but Safari has never crashed, hung or lagged for me on any of my various Macs in the last 4-5 years. Now Flash... that is unstable as jumping onto thin ice.
Camino is kind of meh to me. It's in between Firefox and Safari. It's got Safari's native UI look and Firefox's slow(er) render engine.
Conclusion: Stick with the best. Safari. I don't know about the OP, but Safari has never crashed, hung or lagged for me on any of my various Macs in the last 4-5 years. Now Flash... that is unstable as jumping onto thin ice.
colourfastt
macrumors 65816
For me: Safari & Chrome for general browsing; Flock for social networking; Firefox for porn; Opera isn't used anymore (version 10 seems to be borked and haven't found a copy of version 9 yet); Camino, SeaMonkey & OmniWeb for occasional browsing.
Forsaken
macrumors regular
I don't like either. Safari is a memory hog and it does crash like hell, and Camino isn't very stable and it's a bit too bare-bones.
I actually have four browsers - Safari just in case, Opera very rarely, Chrome to see if it sucks or not (currently it's 50-50, but it's just a beta as of yet), and Firefox w/o any add-ons for general browsing.
TuffLuffJimmy
macrumors G3
Agreed. He does this on all subjects, and adds his own "Appel is dah pwnerz" flair.
Having said that, I choose Safari over Camino, since the development of Camino has slowed to a snail's pace. However, all browsers running on modern engines other than IE (still not up to standards snuff) preform about the same. There might be some irrelevant speed differences in javascript, but they aren't even measurable unless the same routine is run MILLIONS of times. So it's really up to the end user and how you like the interface. Some of Camino's features like tab overview, growl notifications, and better (IHMO) tab management are nice. Safari has nice eye candy like top sites.
I primarily use Safari for browsing, but for work in Zoho Office, not everything works with Safari, so I use Firefox.
I fire up Camino for individual searches, but not much else.
I fire up Camino for individual searches, but not much else.
MisterMe
macrumors G4
This is not normal. Either you frequent some very problematic sites or you have other issues with your system.
As far as speed goes, chill. If the time you save by using the faster browser over the slowest browser makes a difference in your life, then you need to simplify your life. On none of my Macs have I seen a perceptible difference among the performances of my 13 browsers. Unless you are using Internet Explorer for MacOS X or are frequenting crap sites like MySpace.com, then it should possible to distinguish the speeds of different browsers only with the aid of a chronometer.
ceezy3000
macrumors 6502
No , not exactly, the reason camino feels or may be faster is because its a mac native application while firefox uses XUL or XULrunner(not sure) there are a few plugins for camino however. google pimpmycamino and you'll find a camino page with plugins and themes etc.
Forsaken
macrumors regular
The only reason Safari has ever crashed for me is when I was using an addon that wasn't supported for the newest version of Safari. For those of you who are having crashes, were there any addons that you installed that may be crashing the otherwise stable browser?
I even use GlimmerBlocker now, which is an ad blocker that works as an http proxy instead of modifying Safari. That browser hasn't crashed in ages!
I even use GlimmerBlocker now, which is an ad blocker that works as an http proxy instead of modifying Safari. That browser hasn't crashed in ages!
I use Safari as my primary browser (actually nightly's of webkit) and I used to use FF as my secondary but I switched to Camino recently, it feels more Mac like imho, I like it better then FF. That said FF is still a pretty decent browser.