Since I got my Mac Book Pro last November, I have been extremely disappointed with the stability of FireFox on Intel Macs. The PPC version is quite stable and gives Safari a run for the money. On Intel however, it feels like an alpha-quality product. I have been using Safari, which gets the job done, but I had really missed some of the great features that FireFox provided:
- HTML Editing capabilities (the WordPress HTML editor works in FireFox, not Safari)
- Built-in spell checker
- Site-level pop-up blocking
- Cool extensions like FireBug
For one reason or another, I decided to take another look at Camino. Camino was started by Mike Pinkerton and it is built on Mozilla’s Gecko, which is also what powers FireFox. The big difference between Camino and FireFox is that Camino was designed to be a Mac-only browser that uses the Cocoa framework for its UI rather than XUL. What you end up with a browser that has a lot of the niceties of Safari, with most of the capabilities of FireFox. Some things you don’t get is FireFox extensions & themes, but I can live with that. As far as stability goes, I’m using one of the nightly builds and haven’t had a crash yet.
Damnhandy 
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I’ve heard good things about BonEcho from my coworkers on Intel Macs…may be worth scoping out.
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I’ve heard good things about BonEcho from my coworkers on Intel Macs…may be worth scoping out.
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ALR
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Speak for yourself, my Firefox sings on my Intel Mac.
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Speak for yourself, my Firefox sings on my Intel Mac.
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I haven’t had problem with Firefox on my MBP either. I installed Camino, and it’s a great web browser, but the killer Firefox feature for me is Live Bookmarks for RSS feeds. For whatever reason I find it to be the most convenient RSS reader.
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I haven’t had problem with Firefox on my MBP either. I installed Camino, and it’s a great web browser, but the killer Firefox feature for me is Live Bookmarks for RSS feeds. For whatever reason I find it to be the most convenient RSS reader.
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I like Camino, but it’s too light. There’s too much absent to make it as useful as either Firefox or Safari.
I’ve personally had no problems with Firefox on my MacBook Pro, so I’m sorry to hear that.
If you’re looking for a power web browser and you like Safari, then you could do much worse than having a look at OmniWeb, which uses WebKit but takes things one step further.
I recently run an article on web browsers for the Mac, which you might want to have a look at…
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I like Camino, but it’s too light. There’s too much absent to make it as useful as either Firefox or Safari.
I’ve personally had no problems with Firefox on my MacBook Pro, so I’m sorry to hear that.
If you’re looking for a power web browser and you like Safari, then you could do much worse than having a look at OmniWeb, which uses WebKit but takes things one step further.
I recently run an article on web browsers for the Mac, which you might want to have a look at…
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