Reder Tseng

Camino

Homepage: http://caminobrowser.org/

I switched to Camino as my default browser for a while. It is not as fast as Safari or Google Chrome and does not have extensions. Currently I don’t use other browsers because:

• Safari keeps exiting exceptionally about 1 time per day.
• Google Chrome is always having small bugs. And I hate the background update.
• Firefox on Mac OS X looks really ugly. Even if you use GrApple, it just look like a fake Safari.
• Opera has some input method problem on Mac OS X. And 1password does not have an extension for it.

Camino is just stable, do the work I need, and use less memory than other browser.

Below are some tips and hidden preferences. It’s just a few, since Camino is a simple browser.

Hidden Preferences

Hidden Preferences

• Don’t open the Downloads window when starting a download: change below preference name to false

  browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting
  

• Hide the status bar: enter the following command in Terminal without Camino running.

  defaults write org.mozilla.camino "Hide Status Bar" -bool YES
  

• Turn on http pipelining:

  Enter about:config in the location bar: and find pipelining. Change all boolean to true and change network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 8 or 16.

Custom Styles

~/Library/Application Support/Camino/chrome/userContent.css

Lisa’s AppleScript for Camino

http://homepage.mac.com/lthompson.22/applescript/forcamino.html

The “Open Page in Other Browser(s)” is quite useful.

Customization

You can’t use extensions in Camino, so the bookmarklets are the best choice for some customization.