Just downloaded the G5 optimized version of Camino 1.0a1 (get it or G3 or G4 optimized versions here:
http://camino.ilnm.com/latest/). I don't actually notice any speed difference between this and the unoptimized version, but whatever. It's plenty fast on my G5 anyway.
What I have noticed is that Camino
still, despite being a cocoa app,
doesn't have spell checking. What the hell? It's built into the damned OS! This is one of the two reasons I use Safari as my default browser instead of Mozilla (previously Camino wasn't feature-complete enough for me, but now it seems to be).
The other reason is the way it handles sites with authentication. In Safari, if I log into a website that uses .htaccess authentication and tell it to save my password it never asks me for that password again unless the old password stops working. In Mozilla this gets reset every time I quit it, so the first time I go to a site every day I have to log in again. It fills in my username and password for me, but I still have to press OK to actually get it to load the site. Part of my job is developing and maintaining web pages, many of which use authentication. In Safari I can just command click a folder in my bookmark bar and all those pages open up in individual tabs, automatically log in, and are good to go. In Mozilla/Camino I have to go to every single tab and click the OK button before the sites actually load. It's a huge pain int he ass.
Other than those two things, I really like the latest version of Camino. It's got a nice clean, complete interface, it's fast, and it uses Aqua UI elements (I hate how Mozilla makes my buttons and select menus all ugly). If the Camino guys would just fix those two things I'd consider changing my default browser from Safari to Camino as Camino is definitel faster.
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