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Camino browser reaches its end

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Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by MatthewPhillips »

eightyone wrote: post #5
kunai wrote: post #2

I find this extremely saddening because Camino offered the best native experience for OS X, with all the polish of a well-designed Cocoa app, on top of Gecko. I'll miss Camino.

I want to like Firefox, I really do, but the experience on OS X is awful. It doesn't fit well with the aesthetic of a native Mac app, and certainty doesn't' function like one. Multi-gestures in Safari are so much smoother. About a month or so back when the Firefox team was soliciting feedback for something here on HN, one of the designers or developers at Mozilla had screenshots of a version of Firefox that looked re…

Couldn't disagree more. I think Firefox looks and feels great.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by asperous »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #14

Unfortunately/fortunately with browsers becoming more of an OS replacement, it makes it rather hard if not impossible for small teams to maintain them.

My opinion is that Google/Mozila is pushing HTML5 instead of plugins not because that's what's best for the web, but because exactly this-- it decreases the potential for competition.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by elithrar »

battwell wrote: post #7
eksith wrote: post #4

Well that marks one more end of an era. With Camino folding up and Opera going with WebKit - Camino too was on the way to this with Gecko being out of the question - the browser field is getting to be a one-horse race (since all the cool kids are going with Chrome these days).

nitpick: Opera is going with Blink. Admittedly, Blink is very similar to WebKit at the moment.

> nitpick: Opera is going with Blink. Admittedly, Blink is very similar to WebKit at the moment.

Actually, Opera is leveraging Chromium—not just Blink. This includes the rendering engine (Blink), V8, networking, etc, etc.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by Jate »

Would it be such a sin to continue to use it for a while practicing safe browsing techniques? Or am I naive to think that I can avoid being harmed browsing trusted sites with my beloved browser?

Seemed to be a favorite for marketing campaigns thanks to it's minimal interface.

Camino will be missed.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by mortehu »

asperous wrote: post #15
MatthewPhillips wrote: post #14

Unfortunately/fortunately with browsers becoming more of an OS replacement, it makes it rather hard if not impossible for small teams to maintain them.

My opinion is that Google/Mozila is pushing HTML5 instead of plugins not because that's what's best for the web, but because exactly this-- it decreases the potential for competition.

They must be quite bad at it, because both their browsers are split into components that can easily be reused in competing products.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by theatrus2 »

GigabyteCoin wrote: post #18
fleitz wrote: post #3

I loved Camino back in the 10.1 / 10.2 days. It was truly epic , and so much better than the god awful IE for Mac.

IE for Mac? That has to be an oxy moron of some sort.

It also was the most standards compliant and performant IE of its time, being a totally different code base.
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