Differences between Firefox & Camino?

[RadishTM Veteran]

Can someone please explain the differences?, I've yet to try Camino on OS X.

Radish?

[PureLogic]

Why don't you just download it and look for yourself?

It looks different, it doesn't support extensions etc. I'm sure there are feature lists available on mozilla.org :)

Camino has a new independent site btw:

http://www.caminobrowser.org/

[Rudy]

i believe its more compliant to the OSX user interface guidelines

[Dazzla Veteran]

Camino is a Cocoa app. It's a more true OS X app so to speak. Firefox uses it's own interface. See the buttons on forms in webpages, and the contextual menus etc etc. They're all non standard widgets. Whereas Camino is all native goodness :happy: unfortunately it lacks in the feature set.

[Devoto.]

Yeah, Dazzla's got it spot on. I will vouch for Camino being much faster than Firefox. If you install ExtraPref's it becomes even quicker and you can enable pipelining and other stuff to speed it up even more.

It's my second browser, behind Safari.

[mikedc1760]

I tried it out last night, its pretty good. I still prefer Safari though.

[RadishTM Veteran]

Camino is a Cocoa app. It's a more true OS X app so to speak. Firefox uses it's own interface. See the buttons on forms in webpages, and the contextual menus etc etc. They're all non standard widgets. Whereas Camino is all native goodness :happy: unfortunately it lacks in the feature set.

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Thanks for the info Daz! :)

I'm currently settled into Firefox, will give Camino a go in the future when it becomes a bit more fully-featured.

Radish?

[yayo]

I tried it out last night, its pretty good. I still prefer Safari though.

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I prefer Camino as my replacement for Safari, with Camino you can use a similar ad-block feature which is free.

[toastyghost]

For me, the astonishing speed of the G5 optimized Camino builds is far more important than having a ridiculously large amount of addons and extras. ExtraPrefs enables pretty much everything I use, and it's a lot nicer to have native widgets. But I can't begin to stress how fast it is. Its the only browser I've ever seen to beat my Opera 8 install on windows.

Even if it does have some problems with buttons when I'm using SIRO, its the browser I use most frequently.

[Fusion]

Why would you not just download it and try it out? You could probably experience the differences better yourself first hand than you could with us just telling you about them.

[Etc.]

When I owned a PC I would swear by firefox. This held for OS X at the time as well because Camino was fairly primitive, but even in the last few months I think it has come a LONG way. I never really used any extensions for Firefox other than adblock, so making the switch was very easy for me because ExtraPrefs has an adblock feature. You can also tweak using the user.js file just like with firefox to make things even faster. Now, Firefox on OS X just feels slow, ugly, and unresponsive in comparison. I'd also recommend using an optimized build for an even further boost (I use the ones at http://camino.ilnm.com/ and would recommend the 3/23 build since 3/24's seems to be erroring).

[aldo]

Thanks for the info Daz!:):)

I'm currently settled into Firefox, will give Camino a go in the future when it becomes a bit more fully-featured.

Radish?

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Firefox sucks on the Mac. It's terrible.

[binqker]

how so??? unless you configured it right.

[Elliott]

Firefox sucks on the Mac. It's terrible.

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No, it's not. It's just not as Aqua-like as Camino or Safari. We're accustomed to fast, nice-looking Cocoa apps and seeing an oddball like Firefox tends to make Mac users think the software sucks

[RadishTM Veteran]

I tried Camino, it's fast but I still love Firefox on OS X because of the extentions I use on Windows.

Radish?

[krmathis]

Firefox sucks on the Mac. It's terrible.

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Can you please elaborate?

I'm using Firefox on Mac OS X and imo it dont suck at all. OK, it dont follow the Aqua guidelines as well as the Cocoa coded browsers (Camino, Safari, Shiira, Omniweb etc.).

But its as usable and fast as any of the mentioned browsers! :)

[Chad]

While Firefox on OS X isn't quite what it can be on windows (due to some plugins not working), it hardly sucks. IMO....it's the second best browser you can find for the Mac.

Rad....I'm throwing my weight behind Omniweb. If you haven't tried it yet, you are definitely missing out. Daz did a great job covering the main differences though. Both are solid browsers. Just depends on what you are looking for.

[Devoto.]

While Firefox on OS X isn't quite what it can be on windows (due to some plugins not working), it hardly sucks.  IMO....it's the second best browser you can find for the Mac. 

Rad....I'm throwing my weight behind Omniweb.  If you haven't tried it yet, you are definitely missing out.  Daz did a great job covering the main differences though.  Both are solid browsers.  Just depends on what you are looking for.

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I've tried OmniWeb and I really liked it. But I don't think I am willing to pay ?15 for the full version though:((

[Chad]

Why pay for it? You can use it for free. The registration fee isn't required.