Re: Camino v Firefox?

Clive <clive@xxxxxx> wrote:

Hylton Boothroyd wrote:
I would be grateful for any wisdom that might be around in ucsm on the
choice between using Camino and Firefox as one's browser.

Clearly there are Mozilla's own views on their respective pages. But are
there differentiating whoopees/gotchas that come from experience?

Background
==========
I've just set up a Mac MIni and allowed Software Update to repeatedly
upgrade everything on it to 10.4.9 etc.

I want to switch all browsing to a modern browser, but I hope not to
have to switch from my elderly OS9 iBook for mail/news/MSOffice until at
least the autumn.

I'm not sure whether it's a relevant issus to the Firefox/Camino choice,
but I also want to regain access from home to my permanent unix
account/workspace at the university from which I retired. At present it
simply aggregates, screens, and forwards mail sent to my several online
academic personas (on which I continue to rely for academic material).


I will also be interested to see what people say. I'm currently using
Firefox. I've tried Omniweb - nice, but just did not feel right and had
some problems with several web sites I use.

I also keep playing with Opera - I like the ability to browse web,
usenet and get email all in one application.

I'm a little confised why Camino exists. Firefox, for me, works well on
my MBP. It seems a litle strange that the two co-exist.

back in the day it was slicker ie more aquafied than mozilla which even
now is touch clunky, so it was to be a lighter, faster and more mac like
than mozilla i think it might be older than firefox but my memory may be
wrong there.


Clive

roger
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