At Last the voice of reason.We in the community must resist the temptation to turn every new release into some kind of pissing contest.We should be thankful that those with the imagination and talent put so much time into making things easier and more functional for everyone else. On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 12:24, David Toub wrote: > On Nov 19, 2003, Mike Cohen wrote: > > >I gave up on Camino a few months ago. I find that Safari works better > >and is a lot more pleasant to use. Both Safari & Firebird are a lot > >faster & more stable than any recent Camino build. Unless the Camino > >people get their act together and get it at least as fast as > Firebird, > >I won't use it again. > > Then why bother with this mailing list? Great that you prefer Safari; > I’d venture to say many of us use both depending on our needs (some > pages won’t load under one or the other). I don’t want to get into a > contest about which one is faster, since anyone’s mileage can vary. In > my experience, depending on the build, Camino is generally either as > fast or faster than Safari. > > Regardless, I think that the fact that Camino is open source and > maintained largely by volunteers who update it regularly based on user > feedback, it’s pretty damn good. I think it’s a bit presumptuous to > demand that the developers, who are quite generous with their time, > “get their act together.” Firebird, while also fast, has a poor UI in > comparison, and in the recent build I tested, didn’t even load > www.apple.com. It’s a nice effort, and good for them, but is not a > substitute on my machine for Camino. > > It’s good that there are multiple browser options on OS X, and user > choice is important. But silly threats (“I’m ditching browser X for Y > unless you do everything I want and then some!”) are not appropriate > nor are they useful. See Dave Hyatt’s blog for a more eloquent > description of what I’m talking about > (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2003_11.html#004358) > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Camino mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/camino
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