Trying out Camino
Camino is the Mozilla family browser tailored for Mac desktop. Version 1.0 was released on Feb 14th, and I’m now trying it as a new default browser to replace Firefox:
On a quick look, Camino looks better and seems a bit faster. It also fixes a critical problem I had with Firefox 1.5, the time the software was frozen to open new windows. With Camino, pop-ups and download windows open briskly.
All the regular web features I use work with Camino: Bookmarklets, AJAX, Google Maps, HtmlArea etc. However, missing RSS auto-discovery is a bit of an issue.
I noticed the state of Camino via Mezzoblue.
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