[pedroperez80]

Safari 3 vs Camino, which one is faster?

[larrinski]

Omniweb 5.5, sorry

I find Safari 3 faster on my PPC and Intel computers...

[Sethro]

I somewhat have to agree with Safari, its just a very powerful minimalistic web browser with no nonsense features and a simple and easy to understand interface. But for the record I have tried Camino, and I really liked it.

[Googer-Giger]

I would prefer Safari if it didn't load my pages about half the time... when it doesn't work I use firefox. Speed isn't my biggest preference, since firefox has a 100% rate of loading a page and Safari is about 60%, I don't care if it's like dial-up.

[LeeG]

I have been a dedicated Camino user for about the last 3-4 yrs, but I do like the new safari - its fast.

I have had some small issues with camino - the "Today" module on my.yahoo has always showed up with garbled text in camino, but works fine in firefox and safari. Also, when I load my netvibes page in Camino it locks up the processor and SLOWS down...I think its a particular module...may be a flash or javascipt issue that I havent pinned down yet, but Safari 3 handles it fine.

I haven't used Safari regularly in years, but I've been using it more lately since v.3 Its pretty nice. Camino is still my favorite for general browsing tho.

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[Taylor C]

I've tried every browser out there, but I just keep coming back to Firefox. If Camino had RSS support, though, I'd definitely use it full time.

[Randman]

Let's compare a beta (second version) with an established browser? Hmm, ok. Safari 3, still and not even gold.

[crazyjohnson]

I hope everyone is using Camino 1.5.

[dru]

Originally Posted by crazyjohnson 

I hope everyone is using Camino 1.5.

And Safari 3 is still faster.

[Remxed]

for me on a 15 megbit down connection there practically is no difference. I just tend to like lightweight apps so i'm going with camino.

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by Remxed 

for me on a 15 megbit down connection there practically is no difference. I just tend to like lightweight apps so i'm going with camino.

Camino is 52.6 MB in size while Safari is 20.1 MB and WebKit-Framework is 8.2 MB which makes a total of 28.3 MB. So in what sense is Camino "lightweight"?

[cgc]

Why do a survey when there are benchmarks available for browsers?

[MRTrauffer]

My vote went for Safari. It does seem faster than Camino. While the new features in Camino 1.5 are pretty nice, It doesn't display text properly or at all on form pages or login pages. That's a deal-buster for me.

Safari Beta 3.0.2 has been very stable so far for me.

[Veltliner]

I am very satisfied with Safari. It's quick and has a good interface, good design, and no thicket of options I'd possibly never use.

Somebody mentioned the word "minimalistic". Good word. Describes Safari as a no-nonsense and esthetically advanced piece of software.

I tried Opera, and still use it from time to time. The tabs are a good thing, but I don't really miss them in Safari.

[ApeInTheShell]

I dropped Chimera when it changed its name to Camino and Apple announced a new browser coming soon. The feature I followed closely was tabbed browsing because it was the coolest thing. Firefox was not fully developed at the time and Camino loaded websites faster than Internet Explorer 5 (the default that came with Mac OS X for a while).
I think the most significant changes that came to Safari is when it went from public beta to final in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and added a few featured in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. We have tabbed browsing, pop up blocker, snapback, RSS reader, easy to access history and bookmark viewer, search bar, font size increase/decrease, and so on.
I don't think Camino is much of a competitor anymore in the web browser arena. Even OmniWeb and Opera are not among the top browsers that Mac and Windows users download. The top competitors are Firefox and Internet Explorer. While Safari remains a beta in its third release there is so much complaining. Now I wonder which Windows users did the beta testing for Firefox?