Camino 1.5
Recently, Camino 1.5 was released. I took it for a test drive.
What I like
- RSS Feeds. Finally. Camino does something interesting in that it doesn’t try to display an RSS feed, but asks for a designated application to handle the feeds. I haven’t seen this in any other browsers.
- Session Saving. If you crash, you want your tabs back. This is important. Browsers that don’t offer this capability are not browsers I use.
Opportunities for Improvement
- Tab behavior. Camino emulates Safari’s tab behavior. I’ve addressed this before and Camino drops the ball on this one. Not only do they not get command key tab selection correct, they’re not using a standard key mapping when compared with other browsers. Option-command-arrow? Please. Get this one right.
- Plug ins. Maybe the typical Camino user doesn’t want plug ins, but they’re extremely useful. I don’t want to add a bookmarklet to add bookmarks to Del.icio.us (especially with that broken tab behavior). I am not wildly thrilled about doing any real work on any browser that can’t run Web Developer or Firebug.
- Camino strikes me as simply being an afterthought—an alternative to Safari that tries to be Safari. It’s not skinnable with Themes, it doesn’t run Plug Ins. The only similarity this browser has with Firefox is that they both run Gecko. The new features in Camino all seem to have been released on Firefox long ago. Firefox also seems dramatically faster than the new Camino.
I’m afraid I’m going to stick with Firefox. Sorry, guys. Congratulations on the new release, though. Keep up the good work and I hope some of my suggestions will help out.
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