Website:Migrating from Firefox

Welcome, Firefox Users!

Upset that Firefox 2 is a major step backward for Firefox as a Mac app? Looking for all that Gecko goodness in a browser that looks, feels, and behaves like it belongs on your Mac? We believe Camino, Firefox's Mac-only older cousin, is the right browser for you. Welcome!

We're aware that switching browsers can be a jarring, perhaps painful experience, so this page is designed to point out some common differences and help Camino feel right at home on your desktop and in your Dock.

Migrating Your Firefox Profile

Importing Bookmarks

Camino can import your Firefox bookmarks. Simply choose Import Bookmarks… from Camino's File menu and select Firefox from the drop-down menu in the window that appears. For more information on importing and working with bookmarks, see Camino : Documentation : Bookmarks.

History

Camino and Firefox share the same history file format, so you can copy history.dat from your Firefox profile into your Camino profile. Your Firefox profile is located in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/profilename/ (where ~ is your Home folder and profilename is the name of your Firefox profile, which is often a string of random characters), and your Camino profile is located in ~/Library/Application Support/Camino/.

Cookies, Cookie Permissions and Blocked Servers

If you have a collection of cookies, cookie permissions (whether a site can set a cookie, or if the cookie should expire on quit, etc.) or other "blocked server" options, you can copy cookies.txt and hostperm.1 from your Firefox profile into your Camino profile.

Custom Styles

If you have defined a set of custom styles in userContent.css, you can copy that file from your Firefox profile to your Camino profile.

Preferences

While Camino and Firefox share some preferences and it is possible to copy your Firefox preferences file to your Camino profile, we strongly recommend against doing so. Most significant preferences are not shared, and some Firefox preferences may cause Camino to work improperly.

Other Files

Camino saves passwords in the Mac OS X Keychain, while Firefox stores passwords in its own proprietary database, and there is currently no way to import these.

should we even list that?

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Search
• History
• Use the System Prefs to customize

Alternate Behaviors

• Bookmarks bar is a toolbar
• FAYT
• Adding Search Engines (heh)

Location Bar Search

Camino's default behavior for non-URLs entered in the location bar is to construct a URL; e.g., if you type mikepinkerton in the location bar and hit return, Camino will visit http://www.mikepinkerton.com.

In Firefox the default behavior in this case is to run a search using Google’s "I’m Feeling Lucky" search. If you are fond of this behavior, you can configure Camino to mimic Firefox by setting the appropriate Hidden Preferences: set keyword.enabled to true and set keyword.URL to froodian, please fill in this value.

Form Fill

Camino is capable of filling in non-password forms on websites using information from your "Me" card in Address Book. To fill in web forms, choose Fill Form from the Edit menu (or use the corresponding keyboard shortcut, or add the optional "Fill Form" toolbar button to your toolbar).

Extending Camino

• PMC
  • shout-out to a few that mimic popular Fx extensions / features?

    (CamiStyle = Stylish; CamiBlock = FlashBlock & Adblock; Geekmonkey = GreaseMonkey)

    A lot migrating Firefox users miss keyword.enabled - either link hidden pref or MoreCamino

  • themes
• prefPane docs