Comments on: Tweaking Camino

By: j

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:55:57 +0000

I really totally completely HATE how camino gets stuck and stalls when loading the apple address book — just like safari (when enabled), it totally slows things down but unlike safari, there’s no place to uncheck it in preferences… isn’t there a way to disable that? I don’t want or need it with 1Password. it really burns my … load time

By: Carla Hufstedler

Carla Hufstedler — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:09:56 +0000

Here’s something else that might help (I’m giving similar tips to a Mac-using co-worker :D ):
CaminoSpace: http://willmore.eu/plugins/caminospace.html

allows you to search for “things with spaces in” using find-as-you-type

session management: http://willmore.eu/plugins/caminosession.html
and
http://pimpmycamino.com/parts/useful-hidden-commands

Hope this helps!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:24:03 +0000

Never mind Firefox…..look at the header image…..sometimes honest respect speaks for itself…..

Mike:)

By: Jason Campbell

Jason Campbell — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:50:52 +0000

I guess it would have been best to look up the term memory leak before asking.
I admit to being less than knowledgeable about such things, and not knowing enough to know if I may or may not have been affected by these things is like an itch you can’t scratch enough to relieve. Forgive me if I hide behind “no such thing as a stupid question” however skinny that tree may be. I take solace in the fact that I did learn something, sorry to bother.

Cheers.

By: Stephen Bunt

Stephen Bunt — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:28:55 +0000

I recently got Safari 3.0.3 for Windows beta working on Windows XP and I had the same infuriated response when it would close down instead of keeping that last blank tab open like Firefox does!

Horses for courses, I suppose. :)

By: Carla Hufstedler

Carla Hufstedler — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:30:26 +0000

This might help raise your comfort level some as you tweak Camino to your satisfaction: More Camino. Gives you control over Find-As-You-Type, change your search engine, etc.
Despite the fact that the page says it’s “AWOL”, the download link works–I just tested it, to make certain. :)
Don’t be fooled by its appearance or icon, however; it’s not a System Preference Pane. It’s internal:
Applications > Camino > Contents > PreferencesPanes.

Hope this helps.

By: Jason Campbell

Jason Campbell — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:00:53 +0000

Eric,

I’m curious how the memory leaks in Safari that were irritating you so were manifesting themselves.

Thanks,
J.

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:13:03 +0000

Thank you, Simon and Smokey! Having installed both the 348031 extension and AsceticBar, I'm now a good deal happier with both Firefox and Camino. Time to go blog the results!

By: Smokey Ardisson

Smokey Ardisson — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:39:34 +0000

The add-on that Philippe was thinking of to make your Bookmark Bar more Safari-like is AsceticBar. (Note it needed a "recent nightly" back in March, but will work just fine with 1.5.x release builds.)

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:57:01 +0000

Still off-topic (still sorry): Alright, so your blog software doesn't know how to properly handle data: URIs. Try this attachment to bug 348031 instead (resp. feel free to correct the link from my previous comment and remove this comment).

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:34:00 +0000

but didn"t find an extension that does what I want

Tab Mix Plus surely offers that option (admittedly among a plethora of other stuff) and other tabbed browsing extensions might/should do so as well. Should you however prefer a surgical strike, download and install fixbug348031.xpi (1KB, easy to unpack and review before installation).

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:01:24 +0000

Thanks for the answers, Philippe! 1. I'm pretty sure the wrongness on my site is due to the Bugzilla bug Chris mentioned 2. Yep, looks like that's on the to-do list as well. I strongly encourage the Camino team to study how Safari handles form-field memory; it's quite excellent. 3. Well, bummer. Not a deal-breaker, but it would be really nice to switch off the favicons in the Bookmarks bar in order to reclaim some of that real estate they're chewing up.

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:44:32 +0000

I may start doing as you do, John, but right now I'm still fairly stuck in the "close everything before quitting" paragidm. (Yes, I just used that word without irony.) But that's not the only time Firefox's behavior bites me. I often want to close all of my browser tabs and windows without quitting the application. I did some Googling, Simon, but didn't find an extension that does what I want. I'll see if I can dig up my Bugzilla login and comment on it. Thanks for the pointer and the autofill information, Chris! I'm disheartened to see that the bug is so old, but at least it's there and commentable... again, assuming I can remember my login. And yeah, that seems to be my problem-- that, and the e-mail information in the "Me" card isn't being applied to lots of forms I use.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:34:21 +0000

Ah, there we go:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295336

is the bug you’re looking for. The problem occurs when the label for the field is after the field itself.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:27:19 +0000

As Philippe said, the *only* autofill information (other than usernames and passwords) that Camino stores is the “Me” card of your Address Book. We’re planning to expand this in the future to be more like what Safari and Firefox do, but for now, ensure that the “Me” card is filled with the data you want.

For some odd reason, and I’m not quite sure why at this point, the form on this page does not play nice with the automatic “detection” in Camino’s code, and the wrong data gets filled in. We’re looking into it.

Like most of the others here, Firefox’s new Cmd-W-on-last-tab behaviour drives me batshit insane. Honestly, I’m beginning to think the Firefox devs should stop trying to make the Mac version *look* anything like a Mac app, because its behaviours are NOTHING like a Mac app and getting less Mac-like with every new release.