Back in August I wrote about how I had switched to the Camino Browser for my every day browsing needs (I still use Mozilla Firefox for development because of the plugin architecture so I can use the Web Developer Plugin and Firebug).

For the most part, the experience is still an excellent one (i.e. I haven’t switched to something else yet). They seem to update it on a fairly regular basis and its performance still seems to be the best of all the available browsers on the Mac. That said, it still has some annoyances.

1. I can’t reorder my tabs. Easily done in Firefox and Internet Explorer by dragging the tab to where you want, everything just stays put in Camino.
2. I can’t quickly navigate to a tab like I can in Firefox using a key sequence like CMD+NUMBER, i.e. CMD+2 to go to tab #2.
3. This isn’t a big annoyances as I read xml feeds on Google, however, there’s no direct feed viewing right in Camino. I have to launch Safari? Uhhhh….
4. Some pages still render differently in Camino than even Firefox. This isn’t really something I’d expect since the rendering engine supposedly is the same. Its pretty rare, but I have seen it.
5. When shutting down camino with multiple tabs open, Camino will hang with the good ‘ole pinwheel. Sometimes it finds its way and closes gracefully, other times I have to force quit it. Slightly annoying.

I’d say as a whole, Camino delivers what it says it will. An excellent browsing experience that’s as elegant as the machines that it runs on. Hopefully as development progresses, we’ll get more and more features in it so it can become more mainstream. I’ll try to compile a list of features I find useful in Camino that aren’t found in other browsers in the future.

Update: My friend Dan found this site called PimpMyCamino with a lot of useful plugins and add-ons for Camino. Quite a few of my gripes above are taken care of with these nifty add-ons. I haven’t tried installing any yet so I’m not sure if the plugin architecture for Camino is any better than Firefox. Firefox seems to leak a ton of memory the more plugins you have installed.