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Entered CNET Catalog: 07/18/2003
SKU: CNETCAMINO
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CNET editors' review
- Editors' Choice: No
- Reviewed on: 07/30/2003
Camino also features versatile cookie handling. In the dialog that asks you to accept a cookie, Camino presents the option of remembering your decision. When you accept the cookie with remembering turned on, Camino will always accept the cookie from this site, not bothering you again with the dialog. If you decline the cookie with the Remember box checked, Camino will automatically decline cookies from this site the next time you go to it. You're not stuck with your decisions; you can go to Preferences and reset the cookie handling for individual sites.
Camino offers top-notch performance, elegant tabbed browsing, and an easy way to view and hide histories and bookmarks.
Based on the open-source Gecko browsing engine, Camino is almost as fast as Safari at rendering and resizing pages and at scrolling. Camino's performance certainly blows away Internet Explorer, Opera, and OmniWeb. In our tests, Camino was also better at executing JavaScript than Safari and most other browsers, and it was on a par with Internet Explorer in that regard.
For a piece of software that's only version 0.7, Camino is very stable; it crashed only once every few weeks in daily use. Camino is still missing the autofilling of address forms, but it does support autofilling of usernames and passwords, storing them in Mac OS X's Keychain. Unfortunately, since the software is only in beta, support is somewhat limited, and documentation is meager.
User opinions
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User Rating: 
10/10
Brilliant. I can't stand any other browser.
Pros: Easy to use. It works.
Cons: Nothing at all.
User Rating: 
7/10
Decent, but annoying in some ways
Pros: Pretty, decent speed, more customizability than Safari, can add folders to the bookmarks bar, nice bookmarks system
Cons: Not as fast as Safari in my experience, some quirks
Some websites load oddly, you can't right-click your bookmarks to open them, you have to command-click instead. The experience isn't as streamlined as Safari.
User Rating: 
6/10
A fast browser for Mac users, but I still recommend Safari
Pros: Fast and light, easy for first-time users
Cons: Lack of extensibility might upset power users, lack of features might annoy some
In conclusion, Camino is a pretty good browser for the Mac, but it's in need of some work before I'll use it for everyday browsing.
I originally stated that I'd recommend Safari, but no Macintosh user should limit him/herself to any one browser.
User Rating: 
3/10
FAST & GOOD BUT WON'T DO PDF'S PROPERLY
Pros: SPEED AND FUNCTIONS
Cons: HAS BUGS -- WONT DO PDFS
User Rating: 
8/10
Awesome Browser
Pros: Everything Safari Has +type ahead find, mozilla keywords, customizable google search, aqua (not metal), mozilla rendering. Get the nightly build (they've improved quite a bit since the last release)
Cons: crashes sometimes (it's getting better)
User Rating: 
9/10
FAST! FAST! FEATURES GALORE!
Pros: GReAt simple, beter then safari because the tabbed browsing is better, awesome speed, no probs so far! MOZILLA CAMINO ROCKS!
Cons: Absolutly None!
User Rating: 9/10
Way better than other browsers
Pros: Fast, aqua interface, Google search bar, a few extra features that Safari doesn't have, much faster than Safari, scrolling is easier than in Safari.
Cons: Scrolling is sometimes delayed on image heavy sites such as Cnet, wish it were easier to change browser identification if it can change at all.
User Rating: 9/10
BEST BROWSER FOR THE MAC
Pros: There is no more standards compliant (www.w3c.org) browser for ANY operating system. Try it! Love it! ;-)
Cons: Not packaged with the OS, so lazy people will be stuck with wahtever they get.
User Rating: 9/10
much better than safari
Pros: interface most consistent with aqua, many pages load faster than safari, type-ahead find (type in a few letters of the link you want, and it moves your keyboard focus there), much better focus handling of keyboard shortcuts than safari (e.g. alt-left when
Cons: nightly builds have changed to safari's full-page bookmark browser mode.
User Rating: 
5/10
Please FIX this!
Pros: Speedy.
Cons: Crashes a lot. A royal pain if you want to delete your browsing HISTORY. In SAFARI you just pull down to CLEAR HISTORY; in CAMINO you have to jump through all kinds of hoops and delete each session one at a time. Ugh.
