camino

[Ken Moffat]

Seems like Camino does NOT do Firefox plugins (or any plugins?). It is 
designed as a simple, fast web browser, Mac specific, using Cocoa, not 
the firefox standard, even though based on Gecko.

Good for everyday browsing, but not to replace Firefox.

Still, it's nice....



ken




On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Bill Campbell wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 03:48 -0800, Ken Moffat wrote:
>>
>>> Faster, yes. I have a G4 ibook which needs the extra speed. Also, 
>>> Safari
>>> is not supported by google calendar, which I happen to like. Camino
>>> seems to handle it well.
>>
>> What about plugins? I am guessing they are compatible with some 
>> specific
>> version of firefox? I don't think I saw that mentioned on the camino
>> site.
>
> I was looking for plugins last night, and did not find any technical
> information or indications that Camino can use Firefox plugins.  The 
> Camino
> site referenced pimpmycamino.com, and I poked around a bit there 
> looking
> for plugins similar to the web developers, firebug, and sage RSS 
> plugins,
> but didn't find anything.
>
> Bill
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