Probably about a month ago now I started playing with Camino, a browser written in Cocoa that uses the Gecko layout engine. Essentially we have the basic strengths of both Firefox and Safari in a neat package. In plain English, Camino is every bit as fast as Safari and displays pages every bit as well as Firefox.
The browser isn't as robust as Firefox, but it's getting stronger. There are a few features I'd like to see added, so I decided to take a few minutes and see where it's going. Unfortunately, the developers have not determined a roadmap for versions beyond its recently released 1.0, but they have provided us with a list of bugs and enhancement requests targeted for versions 1.1 and 1.2. These aren't guarantees, but the most important things to me already seem to be in progress.
All in all, I think that Camino is going to become a real browser competitor for OS X. If you're looking for a lot of toys and plugins, Firefox is the way to go, but if you're looking for a fast browser with a strong development team and the drive to add the features you want, I think this is the way to go.
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