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I used to use this in college before I switched to Camino!

snapetom 6y ago
Oh my God, I loved Camino so much! The browser scene for the Mac in the early Aught's was such a mess. Netscape was bloated, slow as hell, and wasn't keeping up with standards. IE was great, but you were always suspicious of MS's agenda. Safari was still a bit rough and lacked a lot of features. Camino was snappy, clean, and had very good standards compliance. Such a great little browser!
- nathancahill 6y ago
  Camino was great. Got the whole family on it before eventually migrating them to Firefox around FF4.
- Arsenije 6y ago
  Do you remember Shiira? :)
  - brigandish 6y ago
    Nostalgic! Very fast and interesting, and I like the style of it. I used that and Camino but Omniweb was my favourite browser. Had features I wish other browsers had now, and if they do it's not as easy, the interface was great. I actually paid for it. Sad that there's not much to choose from nowadays.
  - snapetom 6y ago
    I couldn't remember the name, but I looked it up and remembered the browser. I did try it out! It was nice, but wasn't enough to peel me away from Camino.
- mhd 6y ago
  Camino was awesome, one feature that I missed when I had to switch away from it was that its download list actually noticed when the files weren't there anymore (it's the small things that add up). I even had a short look on how hard it would be to use the shell for a more modern engine, but it seems deeply entrenched in the Mozilla codebase, which is basically a dungeon full of undead, dragons and rust monsters.
- ValentineC 6y ago
  Back in 2005 or so, I used Camino whenever a page insisted on being "IE only" — the browser seemed to have some magical compatibility layer built-in. I still have it on my Mac, but it's only good for checking how pages look like if they're viewed on a browser that doesn't support the latest web standards.
- toyg 6y ago
  > IE was great IE on Mac had its very own class of display errors and incompatibilities, making webdevs' lives even more miserable than they were before.
- birdyrooster 6y ago
  IE 5 is all you will ever need
Cockbrand 6y ago
I loved iCab on both MacOS 9.x and on early iterations of OS X. Eventually, I started using Opera as my main browser on OS X, which had a lot of features that other browsers adopted a lot later, like tabs. Then Firefox came around, and the rest is history.

Oh my God, I loved Camino so much! The browser scene for the Mac in the early Aught's was such a mess. Netscape was bloated, slow as hell, and wasn't keeping up with standards. IE was great, but you were always suspicious of MS's agenda. Safari was still a bit rough and lacked a lot of features. Camino was snappy, clean, and had very good standards compliance. Such a great little browser!

nathancahill 6y ago
Camino was great. Got the whole family on it before eventually migrating them to Firefox around FF4.
Arsenije 6y ago
Do you remember Shiira? :)
- brigandish 6y ago
  Nostalgic! Very fast and interesting, and I like the style of it. I used that and Camino but Omniweb was my favourite browser. Had features I wish other browsers had now, and if they do it's not as easy, the interface was great. I actually paid for it. Sad that there's not much to choose from nowadays.
- snapetom 6y ago
  I couldn't remember the name, but I looked it up and remembered the browser. I did try it out! It was nice, but wasn't enough to peel me away from Camino.
mhd 6y ago
Camino was awesome, one feature that I missed when I had to switch away from it was that its download list actually noticed when the files weren't there anymore (it's the small things that add up). I even had a short look on how hard it would be to use the shell for a more modern engine, but it seems deeply entrenched in the Mozilla codebase, which is basically a dungeon full of undead, dragons and rust monsters.
ValentineC 6y ago
Back in 2005 or so, I used Camino whenever a page insisted on being "IE only" — the browser seemed to have some magical compatibility layer built-in. I still have it on my Mac, but it's only good for checking how pages look like if they're viewed on a browser that doesn't support the latest web standards.
toyg 6y ago
> IE was great IE on Mac had its very own class of display errors and incompatibilities, making webdevs' lives even more miserable than they were before.
birdyrooster 6y ago
IE 5 is all you will ever need

Cockbrand 6y ago

I loved iCab on both MacOS 9.x and on early iterations of OS X. Eventually, I started using Opera as my main browser on OS X, which had a lot of features that other browsers adopted a lot later, like tabs. Then Firefox came around, and the rest is history.