A while back I finally had it with Google apps in Firefox on my Windows box at work, so I switched to viewing my Gmail and other Google applications on my MacBook with Firefox. It didn’t take long to get fed up with the speed of Firefox even on my MacBook. So I decided to give Camino a try. It’s powered by the Mozilla engine, but its only made for the Mac. The first thing I noticed was how fast it loaded and how fast it loaded the web pages that I visited the most. The one thing that’s been tough is some of the keyboard shortcuts that are different between Firefox and Camino. But all in all, its been a great experience and I honestly don’t see myself going back to Firefox unless I’m doing development.
Bill Rowell is a Web Developer in Massachusetts, currently specializing in e-commerce development.
I can’t speak for Camino, but ever since I started using the “Clear Private Data” functionality in Fire Fox I haven’t had any problems. You can set Fire Fox to prompt you to clear private data every time you close it. It also lets you specify which data to clear.
[...] in August I wrote about how I had switched to the Camino Browser for my every day browsing needs (I still use Mozilla [...]