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Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by markdown »

notatoad wrote: post #10
eightyone wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

did it look like this [1]? that's the UX nightly available at [2]. it's a new theme they're working on, but it's got a few versions to go before it makes it into stable. i'm loving it, but they're removing/changing a couple of customization features so people are freaking out. we'll see what the final product ends up looking like. [1] http://i.imgur.com/Gfns2MS.png [2] http://people.mozilla.org/~jwein/ux-nightly/

That rounded tab just looks off to me. Everything else looks great though.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by Samuel_Michon »

“Camino is not receiving security updates” “Camino reaches its end” “Camino is no longer being developed”

I don’t like the tone of this press release. They make it seem like they’re not responsible for the lack of updates and that Camino died a natural death. They didn’t offer an explanation nor did they give any advance notice. Not very classy.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by jomohke »

shrikant wrote: post #57
ivanca wrote: post #51

They lost such a good chance to say "Es el fin del Camino!" (which means "Is the end of the Road!" in Spanish)

Camino means road? I always thought it meant "I walk"..

Both are correct.

- As a noun, it means "road" ("El Camino" – "The Road").

- As a verb, it's a conjugation of "caminar" ("to walk" or "to go"). The -o ending makes it "I walk" or "I go".

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

#64

Post by TwoBit »

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…

I'm not a Mac fanatic, which might be why I prefer FireFox on Mac to other browsers.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

#66

Post by progrock »

masklinn wrote: post #58
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.

I still love it. To this day it remains my primary browser, through its aged rendering, through its lockups on JS-heavy sites, through its dated icons, through everything. Because the UI of every other browser just feels wrong. Aside from Safari maybe, but Safari's tab bar makes it impossible to handle 50+ tabs.

Pick any of the main browsers, the main advance in the UI is the slimming down of controls. Even Opera went from a g'zillion toolbars down to a slim default interface. The rendering engines receive loads of attention while the basic browser UI is just plain boring and out dated. Camino doesn't really look that out of place even today.

Has Firefox gone completely native then on OSX? From what I can tell on Linux is that Firefox and Opera stand out (and even Chrome that shuns your system title bar..) These three apps are out of place on my desktop. At least Camino blended in.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by UIZealot »

notatoad wrote: post #10
eightyone wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

did it look like this [1]? that's the UX nightly available at [2]. it's a new theme they're working on, but it's got a few versions to go before it makes it into stable. i'm loving it, but they're removing/changing a couple of customization features so people are freaking out. we'll see what the final product ends up looking like. [1] http://i.imgur.com/Gfns2MS.png [2] http://people.mozilla.org/~jwein/ux-nightly/

That's hardly a good Mac UI. On the Mac:

1. Tab close buttons should be on the left, not the right.

2. They got the tab title right, in the center, but site icon should be right next to the site title, not on the far left.

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