MacIntosh Web Browsers

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In my short life as a Mac user, I’ve taken some time to find the browser that fits me well. My first inclination was to use Safari but for some reason, it didn’t “feel” right to me. The interface is flat and boring to me for some reason. Next, I downloaded Firefox. This is my favorite Windows based browser and I like the standards support and the fast rendering you get with this browser. It works fine on Macintosh, but once again, it didn’t “feel right”. I suppose this is the beginnings of the “Mac User Snobbery” kicking in. I like to run things that look like they are meant to be on a Mac.

Over time I found and downloaded Camino. Camino is also a Gecko based web browser (Gecko being the rendering engine found in Firefox and the Mozilla browsers).

Camino has quickly become my default browser. I like the clean design of the interface and its “Native Mac-Like Construction”. It feeds the Mac Snobbery that I am slowly developing and makes me feel like I am browsing on a Mac - even more than Safari does, oddly.

The one thing I miss from Firefox is the del.icio.us extension. This extension quickly became a huge dependency for me, as I like to keep all bookmarks in del.icio.us and not bookmark locally. Unfortunately, I am unable to find anything comparable to the del.icio.us extension for Camino.

I have, in my quest, found some pretty interesting Mac related del.icio.us applications though, including Cocoalicious, a del.icio.us client for the Mac. I’ve downloaded and installed it, but haven’t quite been able to get it to work yet. I think when I have some extra time I’m going to download the source and figure out why I can’t seem to get any of my del.icio.us data into the application.

But I digress … I do think that Camino is an excellent browser, I just really miss my bookmarking extension. I have become extremely dependent on that functionality since the extension was released, and its been a rough road not having it built into my browser. If anyone knows of a similar set of functionality for Camino, please feel free to shoot it over to me.

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posted by Ron Bieber on 08.22.06 @ 6:58 am | 2 Comments | Digg This

  • Ari Paparo writes about his experience writing a public bookmarking service and why his implementation didn’t hit the popularity that del.ico.us did. Thanks Nalla for the link! Comments Off
  • Apparently, the folks at del.icio.us had a power failure on the 14th and are still having problems. I guess this is the one downfall of public services. Once you get addicted to them and you can’t get to your resources, you wish they were home safe on your machine. (1)