Customize Camino

February, 28 2006 04:51 PM Filed in: How-to
If you have downloaded and are using Camino (You have, haven't you?) you may be interested in adding a few new features. Enter CamiTools which will add:

- a toolbar search engine editor for Camino
- an image and script blocker for Camino
- Flashblock for Camino
- configure many aspects of Camino
- it lets you switch the appearance style (Aqua, Unified or Metal) and hide the status bar
- open your existing Camino profile or create a new one
- define your own styles for the pages you're visiting
- sync your bookmarks with a ftp server


All very nice additions. In particular I wanted to mention the ability to easily add new search engines to the default drop down. After you've installed CamiTools proceed to the NadaMac search engine page where you can download cepfiles for 1300 search engines. My favorite thus far is Flickr keyword searching closely followed by the imdb search. Very cool and easy to do. Interested? First, lets jump to the search engine list.

Next you'll want to browse the list and download the cepfiles:

- Download the .cepfile: Control click on the search engine you need and select 'Download Link Target...'
- Open CamiSearch or the search tab of Camino ExtraPrefs and click on 'Configure'
- Click on 'Load' and select the downloaded .cepfile
- Restart Camino


Enjoy.

I've been using Camino since it's early days and for he past 8 months it has been my default browser. My primary reason: speed and resource usage. On my 1 GHZ PowerBook Camino seems to use the least amount of memory and processor of all the OS X browsers and this helps keep my laptop a little cooler. Another benefit is the speed at which Camino backs through my previous pages. I'm on dial-up and the backwards browsing through my history is much faster in Camino then any other browser because it loads from cache... it is instant. Safari and others seem to want to reload every revisited page.

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