I can’t keep Safari from crashing on my MacBook Pro! The most frustrating part about this is that there doesn’t seem to be any particular reason for the crashes. Safari crashes when I have one tab open, 20 tabs open, when I close a window, open a new tab, and so forth. Its really annoying.
So last weekend I set out to find a decent replacement browser. Camino seems to be the right answer at this moment and feels right at home on my Mac. Camino takes Mozilla’s excellent Gecko rendering engine and adds an OS X optimized interface.
Camino can be downloaded from www.caminobrowser.org. If you’re like me and have an Intel-based Mac and prefer to have an Intel optimized version of Camino, one can be found at www2.hawaii.edu/~coreya. Coreya provides a great document outlining the steps that were taken to build the optimized version – I may try and build my own version at some point. In the mean time, I’m using the Intel optimized version of Camino found there.
As for Firefox, Neil Lee over at BeatnikPad is building an Intel optimized version of that browser. You can download the Intel optimized version of Firefox from his site at www.beatnikpad.com/firefox.
Both are great browsers to have.
[Edit] More info on the Intel optimized version of Camino can be found on mozillaZine. And some useful plugins can be found at PimpMyCamino.
