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    Why Camino?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by taelrak, Jul 1, 2007.

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    Disclaimer: this is NOT a "what's the best browser thread"...but it will necessarily touch upon comparisons of features of eac.

    As the title says, "why Camino?"...why does it exist?

    A year ago, people would've answered something like "because firefox doesn't run natively on Macs"...

    Today though, firefox and minefield are both written in universal binary. Is there really a point to Camino's existence then? Is it obsolete?
     
    taelrak, Jul 1, 2007
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    My take is that it's the kind of minimal Firefox.

    It's fast and stable since you can't use FF extensions.
     
    count_schemula, Jul 1, 2007
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    tokaone Notebook Guru

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    I use camino.
     
    tokaone, Jul 1, 2007
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    Do you think it's more like Safari than is FF, but faster? If not, what do you like about it, tokaone?
     
    bmwrob, Jul 1, 2007
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    Well, the difference between Camino and Firefox is Firefox isn't really "for the Mac" according to the way they put it. They just ported the Windows version of Firefox into Mac OS X. Similar to OpenOffice running under X11. Camino is more Mac OS X - styled, with Keychain and icons more reminiscent of OS X. But with the same power as Firefox. So think of Camino as NeoOffice, Firefox for Mac as OpenOffice under X11. But Firefox is faster than OOo under X11 ;).
     
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    yea i us firefox all the time on both paltforms, but as far as camino goes it just feels like stripped ver. of ff
     
    the caveman, Jul 2, 2007
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    It is supposed to be a Mac specific browser. Looks like everything else in OS X, more integrated with OS X, etc. However you lose Firefox's vast library of extensions, and since they both use Gecko, I can't see why you would choose Camino over FF.
     
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    Hrm, but Firefox and Camino actually look really really similar now, except for the icons, which you can change with a skin. And, I don't think firefox still needs X11...does it?

    Anyway, it's not that I have a problem with either one, but it just feels odd because the same company's making both...seems sort of redundant.
     
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    No, Firefox doesn't need X11, I'm just making an example for NeoOffice vs. OpenOffice for Mac...basically the same thing but NeoOffice is more based on the Mac while OOo is ported, similar to Firefox. Firefox is a port from Windows, while Camino was written for the Mac.
     
    Sam, Jul 2, 2007
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    Because they can do it. That's really it, as with any open source project. You are free to fork anything you like. It doesn't really matter whether there is a target audience or not, since you're usually not selling anything. This is the strenght (and sometimes weakness) of FOSS, you don't need an external motivation. I for one don't like a few quirks in both Safari and Camino, but I think Firefox is bloated. Were I a proficient programmer, and I could mod any of them to be just the way I like (Safari would be harder I guess).
    I hope people understand FOSS do not (need to) work like the normal software market (and thanks God for that).
     
    Wooky, Jul 2, 2007
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