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Accesskey Patch for Camino

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Oh happy day! A patch has finally been submitted that enables accesskey support for Camino.

When a nightly is built that includes this patch, Camino will be the Best Mac Browser™, period.

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Posted June 25th, 2005 @ 1:46 PM

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Dan adds this Comment:

I don’t really get why Camino would be the the greatest browser for the mac. Yes, it is the best browser if that is all you do, browse websites, but it does not support XUL like Firefox. So there is no expandibility.

The best part of Firefox is:
http://chrispederick[...]ebdeveloper/
http://www.iosart.co[...]/colorzilla/
http://editcss.mozdev.org/

I would think these extensions would make Firefox so productive that you would use it instead of Camino.

June 25th, 2005 at 6:42 pm
Scattered adds this Trackback:

Camino?

Alex King brought up Camino as the best mac browser and I really beg to differ.

Oh happy day! A patch has finally been submitted that enables accesskey support for Camino.

When a nightly is built that includes this patch, Camino will be the Best M…

June 25th, 2005 at 6:49 pm
Alex adds this Comment:

Well, on MAJOR reason is that Camino uses native Mac controls, making it much more pleasant to use. Firefox controls look horribly out of place in OS X.

I completely agree that Firefox is the best browser for web development.

It actually seems that most Mac users put Firefox last among major Mac browsers, brhind Safari and Camino.

June 25th, 2005 at 8:04 pm
shorty114 adds this Comment:

I prefer Firefox myself, as I have and use regularly the extentions. If Camino could support Firefox extentions, I would consider switching.

Even then, I don’t know what I would decide on between Safari and Camino.

June 25th, 2005 at 10:28 pm
Alex adds this Comment:

Gecko vs. KHTML is still not much of a contest. While KHTML is improving, a quick search for “safari” on this blog will return you a half dozen bugs that have affected my web apps; several of them are or were bugs that would crash Safari - not good.

June 25th, 2005 at 10:31 pm
Dan adds this Comment:

I agree. While Safari has a lot of features; dictionary, spelling, and all the other things built into the OS it has a lot of bugs. Even with the new webkit, Safari just gives a lot of errors or fails to load pages, pages it really should have no problem with.

June 27th, 2005 at 7:28 am
Kerim Friedman adds this Comment:

I love Camino and I use it for Flash and Chinese language web sites, neither of which work properly for me in Firefox; however, there are two things I depend on in Firefox which don’t seem to be possible to use in Camino.

The first is the Scrapbook Plugin:

http://amb.vis.ne.jp[...]a/scrapbook/

And the Session Saver Plugin:

http://kb.mozillazin[...]SessionSaver

Now it seems like Camino could conceivably implement something like Session Saver built-in, but Scrapbook seems to depend on XUL, so I don’t think it will ever be implemented. On the other hand, I could see someone developing an AJAX version of Scrapbook that would work with any browser…

July 2nd, 2005 at 4:00 am
jim adds this Comment:

I use Firefox’s Scrapbook extension often. I can’t understand why Safari’s developers don’t consider this an indispensable tool. I can’t find a Scrapbook to use with Camino. Firefox remains my main browser.

September 24th, 2005 at 6:45 pm

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