Thursday, July 22, 2004

Using Camino

I never tried Safari and didn't want to use IE on a Mac so I was going
along with FireFox till now. That's the browser I use on my Windows and
Linux boxes and it was nice to see the familiar interface wherever I
surfed. But what kept bugging me was that I could not navigate web
forms in FireFox by using just the tab key on Mac. When you hit tabs,
FireFox only jumps between the input text boxes in the form. It won't
select dropdowns, checkboxes, radiobuttons, etc and I had to use my
mouse to select those. I hated doing that because for some of the
sites, I'm so used to navigating just by the tab key.

Enter Camino. I had dismissed this earlier because it's still 0.8 and
didn't seem any different from FireFox. But now I realize it does
understand all the other inputs also. Plus, now that I'm getting used
to the Mac interface look-and-feel, Camino looks better since it has a
native Mac UI. The really sad part is that it doesn't support
extensions as yet so I've lost my darling Google bar. The built-in one
works just as great but I don't like how it's banished to one corner
and I can't do quick searches for the words in the page.

Hopefully they come up with Version 1.0 soon.

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