Maculous > New Version 1.5 of Camino is Very Fast

Although I’ve never regretted switching from MS Wormware to OS X a few years ago, there are a few things that bother me about life in the Mac world. One of them is the reliability and speed of the Apple default web browser, Safari. I keep about 6 or 7 browser windows open all of the time on various virtual desktops. Several are used to administer this webserver, one to lookup IP address to track activity from my various logs, and of course there are windows I’m using to surf the web.

I find that Safari leaks memory over time, I’ve seen it get up to using 1.5gb of actual RAM on my Power Mac at times. It also has a habit of just ceasing to function sometimes.

So I started trying other browsers, and recently settled on Camino as a second choice. But today there is a new version of Camino that includes, among other things, spellchecker support uising the very good OS X method.

The biggest advantage that Camino has over Safari is rendering speed. It draws web pages much faster than Safari. I suggest you give it a try if you have never done so, it is a very pleasant browser to use, and it is a real OS X application that is based on the Gecko code used by Firefox. Camino uses your OS X keychain, and you can easily import your Safari bookmarks.

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