I am using all these browsers on a ten-year-old 500 MHz Titanium PowerBook G4 running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Camino is clean looking without oversized icons or toolbars. It may not be as fancy looking a Firefox nor have endless add-ons, but then again neither is Safari. It is also one of the few browsers not to bloat over time or lose its streamlined edge.Ĭamino has a clean interface without huge icons or toolbars. Early versions suffered from sudden crashing and quitting, but since coming out of beta it has grown more and more stable. I have been following Camino for a number of years (since it was in beta), and it has developed in to a top class, reliable browser. As a native OS X application, Camino integrates with the keychain and Bonjour just like Safari does. ![]() Camino was created by an offshoot of the Netscape team to prove that Gecko, Mozilla’s rendering engine, could be embedded in a Cocoa application. One of the common complaints about Firefox is its lack of integration with the OS X. Camino is an open-source, Mozilla-based OS X-only browser. Firefox is good, and TenFourFox (a PowerPC build of Firefox 4) is impressive, but I wanted something even better. I constantly flit from browser to browser, checking out new ones and new versions of existing ones trying to get that little extra speed. Most of these machines are used for web browsing, and this is one of the areas that lower spec’d machines suffer in. Low End Mac users are always looking for ways to get better performance out of their aging machines.
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