I've made a small foray into the world of Camino add-ons myself. Somewhat ironic, perhaps, but at least I did follow my own advice.

It started with ChimericalConsole, which is a simple JavaScript console for Camino. We've always said it would be something that would be best done as a third-party tool, since we aren't developer-targeted, and since no-one had done it yet and I found myself using the ugly Console logging hidden pref one too many times, I went ahead and wrote it as an add-on. I'm still not really happy about using an input manager, but hopefully this will motivate me to work on a real plugin architecture.

Then, mostly just to show the vocal minority that wants it that it could in fact be done outside of Camino itself, I wrote AsceticBar, which removes the favicons from the bookmark bar and adds Safari-like markers to folders and tab groups. I still think it's a much worse UI, but hopefully it will mean one less group of people agitating for the aesthetic prefs we have always said we won't be adding to Camino.

Both are available at my new hacks page. Enjoy!

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