Website:Migrating from Safari

Welcome, Safari Users!

Looking for a browser that caters to your needs, not those of Steve Jobs? Want a browser that looks and feels like it belongs on your Mac, no matter the version of Mac OS X you're using? Want the power of the world's most powerful, most standards-compliant, and most compatible HTML rendering engine, wrapped in Cocoa goodness? We believe Camino is the right browser for you. Welcome!

We're aware that switching browsers can be a disruptive, 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 Safari Profile

Importing Bookmarks

Camino can import your Safari bookmarks. Simply choose Import Bookmarks… from Camino's File menu and select Safari 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 cannot currently import browsing history from Safari.

Cookies, Cookie Permissions and Blocked Servers

what do we do here? anything? smorgan might write a cookie importer

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 selected Safari’s Advanced preferences, you can copy the file into a userContent.css in your Camino profile. Your Camino profile is located in ~/Library/Application Support/Camino/ (where ~ is your Home folder).

Preferences

While Camino includes most of the same features you’re used to in Safari, Camino supports a different set of preferences. We encourage you to explore Camino’s Preferences window and set the preferences to your linking.

Other Files

While Camino and Safari both save passwords in the Mac OS X Keychain, both applications use different formats. At the moment, there is currently no way to import Safari Keychain entries.

Keyboard Shortcuts

i'm up to here

Because Camino is a Mac-only browser, its keyboard shortcuts tend to be more in harmony with Mac OS X than Firefox, which seems to favor keyboard shortcuts that make more sense to Windows users.

A full list of Camino's keyboard shortcuts can be found in Camino : Documentation : Keyboard Shortcuts, but some of the most significant are listed below:

• Search the Web… - Command-Shift-F
• Show History - Command-Y
• View Source - Command-Option-V
• Show All Bookmarks - Command-B

If you would prefer to use some other keystroke for a certain menu option, you can use the standard Mac OS X method of customizing keyboard shortcuts, the "Keyboard & Mouse" pane of the System Preferences.

• First, quit Camino if it is running.
• Open System Preferences.
• Choose the "Keyboard & Mouse" pane.
• Select the "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab.
• Press the "+" button at the bottom of that tab.
• In the "Applications" drop-down menu, choose "Camino".
• In the "Menu Title" field, type the exact name of the menu item you want to change, and in the "Keyboard Shortcut" field, type the new shortcut you want that menu item to have. Hit OK to save the new shortcut.
• You may now relaunch Camino.

Alternate Behaviors

• FAYT is really cool; explain it
• Adding Search Engines (heh)

Location Bar Search

sfri doesn't do this, either

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 http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=.

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

Camino is developed using native Mac OS X technologies and toolkits

Because Camino is developed using native Mac OS X technologies and toolkits, it is not as easily (or as infinitely) customizable as Firefox. However, most popular third-party Safari plugins have Camino analogues, and some features only available in Safari plugins are already present in Camino.

PimpMyCamino (run by Jon Hicks, of PimpMySafari fame and creator of the Firefox icon, and Camino theme wizard David Feare) is your one-stop shop for Camino add-ons including preference panes, themes, and other software.

A few popular Safari plugins and their Camino analogues are listed below, but be sure to visit PimpMyCamino to see the ever-expanding world of third-party Camino add-ons.

• SafariBlock: CamiFlash
• PithHelmet: Camino’s built-in ad-blocking, CamiBlock

If you're interested in developing Camino preference panes, there is an initial bit of documentation in the Camino Wiki.

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• hidden prefs page

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

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

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

  • themes
• prefPane docs