mpanoffsaidthis

Firefox is great and all, but the bloat really affects performance. Camino is fast and clean. Sure it's missing the nice plug-in architecture of firefox, but the speed trade-off is well worth it under most circumstances.

Camino is faster than Firefox; load the same URL into both to test them. Camino is great for managing large numbers of bookmarks. See http://PimpMyCamino.com/ for Camino extensions, applications, themes, tips, etc.

Camino is the best-of-breed browser for Mac OS X, bar none.
It uses the screaming fast Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, just like Firefox. Gecko has extremely high compatibility and resiliance- it gracefully handles almost anything that can be thrown at it. The entire browser is rock-stable as well, although I can't vouch for the beta releases.

Users of highly extendable and feature-packed browsers such as Firefox will notice a few things missing, but I've found that with bookmarklets and plug-ins, I can replicate a lot of this functionality.

Overall, Camino has struck a very good balance between speed/simplicity and feature-completeness. It's fast and slick when you need it to be, but with enough room for plenty of customization. I will be keeping it as my primary browser for the forseeable future, although I admit that I am looking forward to the Mac improvements planned for Firefox 3.0.

Essential add-on sites:
http://pimpmycamino.com/
http://www.nadamac.de/camitools/camiutils/

An open-source browser, built by Mac users, for Mac users, leveraging Mac-native technologies, using a true Mac UI.

How could you possibly argue with that?

I can't even get it to launch without crashing. That Talkback thing works pretty well though.

@jailerjoe

Same issue here. Glad I'm not alone at least. Are you on a MacBook like I am? Camino ran fine on my Mac mini at work.

1Passwd users may find a fix for the 1.5 crashes here.

It was the 1Password issue. I updated and now Camino will launch. Kind of sucks that I have to pay (for the upgrade to 1Password) in order to use Camino, though.

Frosthav, I'm on a G5 iMac.

This browser is growing on me. Boy is it fast.

But I can't live without mouse gestures! Help?

@ stellularx:

You could try Flying Meat's FlyGesture: http://www.flyingmeat.com/flygesture/

It's not as good as having mouse gestures built-in (like Opera) but hopefully it'll be good enough for you.

I used to be a major Firefox supporter until I encountered Camino. No more crashes. No more fiddling with extensions to get it to work. No more bloat. Much faster. Need I say more? Camino is establishing itself as THE golden standard for Mac browsing. Highly recommended.

1.5.4 now out...

I've tried to go back to Safari recently after using Camino for a while & it just doesn't play as nice. Kinda sad that Apple doesn't make the best web-browser for the Mac. :S

It would be nice if it had a real full screen mode, eg: to play a flickr slideshow.
Apparently this feature has been dropped of the changes for 1.5.
To be fair, I can't get a full screen mode in Safari 2 or Firefox 2.
I'm glad Opera works on Mac OS, in full screen! :)

Actually, to get close to full screen, there's Mega Zoomer you can run, but you can't hide the status bar. :)
Also, in case you wanted to watch galleries with Camino, note that it doesn't currently support embedded color profiles (compare Camino vs. Safari here and on this photo from a gallery).

Using Camino (1.5.5) as primary browser, because I got tired of Safari's enormous RAM usage (v 3.0.4).
However, there's one thing quite annoying with Camino, that working great with Safari: the find in page function: while Safari 3 searches as you type, highlights the occurences and counts them, I find Camino very unreliable on this: even with 'wrap around' checked, it sometimes can't find a word that's on the page by searching forward (dialog box or G). (It works by searching backwards, though.)

Printing a web page or saving to pdf often doesn't work properly: the first page is mostly empty, and the content is truncated (my test page contains a table with about 100 rows).
Actually, this very page also gets truncated when printed.
(Camino 1.5.5, Mac OS 10.4.11)

It would be a good to have the download link to the multilingual version instead of just the english version.

Core 2 Duo/G5 optimized builds for the official 1.6 release available here:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=3343055#3343055

(compiled on 10.5.2, for 10.4+ only)

Extensions, applications, themes and optimized builds for Camino are available here:
http://www.pimpmycamino.com/