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So long, Safari, welcome back Camino!

After using Safari regularly here at work since shortly before it went gold, I've just switched back to Camino. Why? Because for some unknown reason Safari started acting all weird on me all of a sudden. Starting about two weeks ago, the browser would randomly lock up on me. It did this as many as ten or more times a day, making it a very annoying problem indeed. That, and the overall performance of Safari dramatically shifted for no reason I could ascertain. Where it was once my lean, mean, zippy browser of choice, it's become painfully slow, and it started giving me the beachball with alarming regularity.

In an attempt to bring back the Safari I had grown to love, I cleared out my cache, disabled the cache entirely, zapped my preferences and performed everything I could possibly think of, all to no avail. And so I've just switched back to Camino, the browser formerly known as Chimera.

The switch was easy enough, thanks to this handy bookmarks exchanger and Unsanity's Metalifizer, which applies the same brushed-metal look to Camino. I'll miss some of Safari's features, but not much, since Camino now offers automatic file-extracting for downloads and a very cool white-listing feature for pop-up ads. And one of the nicer browser features I've seen in some time is the ability to prevent other sites from altering the size of browser windows, something that used to drive me nuts.

At home, Safari still works perfectly fine, and since I originally switched there because Camino started crashing on startup (for no particular reason) I'm not going to be switching back there any time soon. I'm sure I'll download the next release of Safari here and if they manage to fix any of the problems I have with it, I might jump ship again. Until then, it's certainly nice to have utilities like the aforementioned ones that make moving back and forth between the two so simple.

Posted by jason at September 2, 2003 04:14 PM | TrackBack | Read more: Apple