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		<title>Camino Browser Redux</title>
		<link>http://www.billrowell.com/2007/12/26/camino-browser-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in August I wrote about how I had switched to the Camino Browser for my every day browsing needs (I still use Mozilla Firefox for development because of the plugin architecture so I can use the Web Developer Plugin and Firebug). For the most part, the experience is still an excellent one (i.e. I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back in August <a href="http://www.billrowell.com/2007/08/19/camino-web-browser/">I wrote</a> about how I had switched to the <a href="http://caminobrowser.org/">Camino Browser</a> for my every day browsing needs (I still use <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/">Mozilla Firefox</a> for development because of the plugin architecture so I can use the <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60">Web Developer Plugin</a> and <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843">Firebug</a>).
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<p>For the most part, the experience is still an excellent one (i.e. I haven&#8217;t switched to something else yet).  They seem to update it on a fairly regular basis and its performance still seems to be the best of all the available browsers on the Mac.  That said, it still has some annoyances.</p>
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<li style="margin: 0 0 5px 0;">I can&#8217;t reorder my tabs.  Easily done in Firefox and Internet Explorer by dragging the tab to where you want, everything just stays put in Camino.</li>
<li style="margin: 0 0 5px 0;">I can&#8217;t quickly navigate to a tab like I can in Firefox using a key sequence like CMD+NUMBER, i.e. CMD+2 to go to tab #2.</li>
<li style="margin: 0 0 5px 0;">This isn&#8217;t a big annoyances as I read xml feeds on Google, however, there&#8217;s no direct feed viewing right in Camino.  I have to launch Safari?  Uhhhh&#8230;.</li>
<li style="margin: 0 0 5px 0;">Some pages still render differently in Camino than even Firefox.  This isn&#8217;t really something I&#8217;d expect since the rendering engine supposedly is the same.  Its pretty rare, but I have seen it.</li>
<li style="margin: 0 0 5px 0;">When shutting down camino with multiple tabs open, Camino will hang with the good &#8216;ole pinwheel.  Sometimes it finds its way and closes gracefully, other times I have to force quit it.  Slightly annoying.</li>
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<p>I&#8217;d say as a whole, Camino delivers what it says it will.  An excellent browsing experience that&#8217;s as elegant as the machines that it runs on.  Hopefully as development progresses, we&#8217;ll get more and more features in it so it can become more mainstream.  I&#8217;ll try to compile a list of features I find useful in Camino that aren&#8217;t found in other browsers in the future.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> My friend <a href="http://enlightsolutions.com/">Dan</a> found this site called <a href="http://pimpmycamino.com/">PimpMyCamino</a> with a lot of useful plugins and add-ons for Camino.  Quite a few of my gripes above are taken care of with these nifty add-ons.  I haven&#8217;t tried installing any yet so I&#8217;m not sure if the plugin architecture for Camino is any better than Firefox.  Firefox seems to leak a ton of memory the more plugins you have installed.</p>
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		<title>Camino Web Browser</title>
		<link>http://www.billrowell.com/2007/08/19/camino-web-browser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firefox]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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.&#160; It didn&#8217;t take long to get fed up with the speed of Firefox even on my MacBook.&#160; So I decided to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A while back I finally had it with Google apps in <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/">Firefox</a> on my Windows box at work, so I switched to viewing my Gmail and other Google applications on my MacBook with Firefox.&nbsp; It didn&#8217;t take long to get fed up with the speed of Firefox even on my MacBook.&nbsp; So I decided to give <a href="http://www.caminobrowser.org">Camino</a> a try.&nbsp; It&#8217;s powered by the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/">Mozilla</a> engine, but its only made for the Mac.&nbsp; The first thing I noticed was how fast it loaded and how fast it loaded the web pages that I visited the most.&nbsp; The one thing that&#8217;s been tough is some of the keyboard shortcuts that are different between Firefox and Camino.&nbsp; But all in all, its been a great experience and I honestly don&#8217;t see myself going back to Firefox unless I&#8217;m doing development.</p>
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		<title>Gmail slow in Firefox?</title>
		<link>http://www.billrowell.com/2007/05/08/gmail-slow-in-firefox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 19:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gmail]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, on my Windows machine at work, I&#8217;ve noticed Gmail being super slow. I hadn&#8217;t noticed this on my MacBook using Firefox or Safari. I had found a post here about this very issue and another one here about speeding Firefox up, but there were no real solutions. I&#8217;m wondering if Gmail has changed something [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently, on my Windows machine at work, I&#8217;ve noticed Gmail being super slow.  I hadn&#8217;t noticed this on my MacBook using Firefox or Safari.  I had found a post <a href="http://www.idealog.us/2007/01/anyone_seeing_f.html">here</a> about this very issue and another one <a href="http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php">here</a> about speeding Firefox up, but there were no real solutions.  I&#8217;m wondering if Gmail has changed something recently or if there&#8217;s an issue with Firefox?  I know I&#8217;m very tempted to just use my MacBook now for email since its not such a slug.  If anyone has ideas behind this or even solutions, I know I&#8217;d like to here about them!</p>
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