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Yep, definitely Camino

If you own anything that runs OS X, do yourself a favor and head over to the Camino site and download the latest nightly build. For me, it just blows the doors off of Safari and I can finally use Google Reader without my CPU going crazy and the fan in my 15″ Aluminum PowerBook running.

Screaming fast browsing, OS X look and feel, and a bunch of new features. I have no idea what the future holds with OS X Leopard, but Safari has a lot of catching up to do. I’m starting to wonder if Apple picked the right horse to ride when they went looking for an open source browser to build upon. Safari’s good, but for my usage, Camino is better.

I made one more change today to try to reduce the lag that happens when browsing the web on OS X, regardless of browser choice. Even though I am setup to not use IPv6 in System Preferences, I found that it was still enabled in the /etc/hostconfig file. I changed the YES to NO in the hostconfig file and things definitely seem faster so far. I won’t get in to the specifics of changing that file since you can find that yourself via Google.

Anything for more speed.

Don’t forget about the Shared Items Page.

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  • For me, Safari gets hung up too often on certain sites. I've done all the suggestions for clearing cace, deleting favicons, etc., but it still seems to struggle for me. If you have a link to any of those benchmarks I would like to see them so I can see where Safari is faster.

    Maybe the real problem is java/javascript, as even Camino now has some issues with Google Reader taking the CPU to 100% for extended periods of time. I don't see this when I use Firefox on Windows.

    Thanks for the comment.
  • Chris
    I'm not sure how Camino _feels_ faster when Safari (and the WebKit engine in general) is faster than any of the Mozilla browsers, by pretty much any benchmark. If speed is your criteria, Opera is still the fastest (if you can live with the ugliness) -- but not by much.
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