Re: Firefox vs Camino

Garbage wrote:
> As of March 2006Anthony Hook wrote:
>> I use Firefox and Thunderbird on the PC, and plan to get my first Mac 
>> once Tiger comes out in a couple of weeks. Considering that both 
>> Firefox/Thunderbird is available for Mac I was simply going to switch 
>> to the Mac version of these apps for a simple/smooth transfer.
>>
>> However.... I've changed my mind for email and plan to switch to Mail 
>> on the Mac instead of Thunderbird, mainly for the Mac look 'n' feel 
>> and the Spotlight search facility.
>>
>> That got me thinking about using Camino instead of Firefox, to keep 
>> the Mac look 'n' feel across all apps. However I like Firefox so much 
>> that I think I'd only really switch over to Camino if the following 
>> features are added.
>>
>> 1. Add Spotlight to Camino. Eg so bookmark names and cached webpages 
>> show up in a Spotlight search.
>>
>> 2. Add support for .Mac sync, same as for Safari.
>>
>> Can't think of any other Mac-specific incentives that would tempt me 
>> over the platform independent Firefox but there's probably others.
>>
>> I'd be interested in hearing other people's opinions about how Camino 
>> and Firefox compare (and Thunderbird and Mail for that matter)...
>>
>> Cheers, Ant
> 
> Hey Ant are ou still waiting for a reply mate?
> 
> I have found the best all round solution is Seamonkey 1.0
> 
> This is a build of the suite based on the 1.8 branch.
> 
> In other words the rendering engine is the SAME as current FF & TB but 
> it is a more complete & polished application than those. (don't need all 
> those silly extensions)
> 
> I find it uses half the resources of FF & TB.
> 
> garbage

The way I see it...

In the beginning there was Mozilla (suite)
       which begat Netscape 6 and 7

Camino was an early branch off the Mozilla (suite), for browsing only on 
Macs. It uses the same engine as Firefox 1.5

and now there is SeaMonkey as well, which is the Mozilla suite updated

Its all up to the user, they have a choice of what to use

Firefox & Thunderbird
Firefox & Mail
Camino & Thunderbird
Camino & Mail
SeaMonkey

Since all are free for the downloading, you may wish to try each, to see 
which one (or set) suits you best.