We released Camino 1.5 today, at long last. Lots of good stuff that we are really excited to get out there to wider audience of users. I won't go into all the new stuff, since the site does a great job of covering all that. Instead, I want to preemptively respond to some of the feedback that we routinely get around release time:
“Big deal, <some other browser> already has those
features.”
Yes, but <some other browser> has a paid, full-time development staff. If
the worst that can be said about us is that we, a very small group of people
doing volunteer work in our free time, can stay largely competitive with
browsers that people are paid to work on, I'd say we are doing pretty darn good.
That's not to say we don't ever want to innovate, but we have to be roughly
on par with everyone in terms of core features for any innovations to
matter.
“It crashes on every launch/never renders any pages/other catastrophic
failure on every basic task. Nobody download it!”
Um... did it occur to you that if it didn't work at all, someone would probably
have noticed before we released it? If you want to use input managers to hack
your apps, that's fine, but it's irresponsible to use them without understanding
that when you hack something, it may not, you know, actually work anymore if
it's done wrong, and that that's not our fault. Remove your input managers
(in this case, 1Passwd and CaminoSession, both of which will cause total
meltdown if you aren't using their latest versions) before flaming us or telling
everyone you can find that our product doesn't work.
“Who cares, it still doesn't do <X>. What have they been doing
all this time?”
See above under “small group” and “free time”. If your
complaint is that we don't spend enough of our free time making you happy...
well, as our fearless leader likes to say: “Bite me”.
Of course, most people don't treat us like dirt; I just have to vent around release time as a coping strategy. To everyone who gives us positive feedback: thank you! To everyone who gives us constructive feedback, thank you as well, and we certainly listen—and be sure to check out 1.5, as it may have that feature you've been asking for!
Category: Camino
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