3 advantages and disadvantages of Camino
As of yesterday (12/12/07) I have decided to switch over to Camino (I'm writing from it right now!) from the ever-so-wonderful-but-not-so-Mac-or-Leopard-ready Mozilla Firefox. Mind you, I have only been using Camino for a little over a day, but I used to use it back in Tiger about 8 months ago and boy have there been improvements. Yet, even with the improvements there are some disadvantages to using Camino over Firefox, and so I give you:
Mike Rapin's Official 3 Disadvantages and 3 Advantages of Camino
in comparison to Firefox
Advantages
1. Super fast; Camino,for the most part, runs blazing fast. Compared to Firefox this thing runs at mach 3, especially when opening and closing. Pages load about the same speed (except for the login page for my university, which loads terribly slow in Firefox)
2. Sleek interface; The look of Camino is simple and elegant. Things aren't too cluttered, yet I manage to have ALL of my bookmarks showing, which leads me to...
3. Amazing bookmark bar; Camino's awesome bookmark bar allows multiple lines of bookmarks whereas Firefox only allows for 1 line. This is awesome simply because now I don't need to use folders and I can have all of my bookmarks available WITH their favicons showing--a feature the Mac version of Camino doesn't have without an add-on.
Disadvantages:
1. No undo-close tab; for me, this feature, added in Firefox 2, is a HUGE deal. I am constantly opening and closing tabs for work and when simply browsing and having the ability to undo a closed tab makes life easy for me, especially when I accidentally close a tab.
2. No add ons; Surprisingly, I can live without add-ons (in Firefox), but the luxury of add-ons (such as the 4chan tool, Web Developer Bar, Better Gmail 2, and Google Sync) made life much easier at times, but also slowed down the browser at the same time. I like being able to customize my browser, but at the same time, I really don't NEED all of those add-ons. Besides, if I wanted AMAZING customization, I'd switch to Opera.
3. No re-arranging tabs; I don't know why, but being able to re-arrange my tabs is a big deal for me. Hell, tabbed browsing is a big deal for me, but when I'm working, I like to have similar tabs next to each others and Camino does not allow moving of tabs, which really kind of irks me. I can live without it, I just may have to plan my tabbing (hehe). Let's just hope the guys at Camino are planning on adding this feature. I mean, Safari, Opera, Firefox and even IE has rearrangeable tabs!
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