More on Camino

I was reading the Camino boards today, trying to get a sense of its development and what will change for the 0.8 release, and I discovered that the sidebar has been stripped from the nightlies. Although I personally didn't care for the sidebar, especially as a bookmark manager, it was one of those features that I know people really liked about Camino back when it was the browser du jour. People were always lauding it as the browser's best feature. Why did it go away?

Its replacement for bookmark management is that replace-the-browser-window thing like Safari has. In fact, Camino on the whole is becoming Safari for people who don't like the Metal theme (though oddly enough the forums have instructions on how to make Camino Metal). I think that's rather disturbing. Camino should be striving to distinguish itself, to create cool features not found elsewhere, not simply copying the new dominant Mac browser.

The tab-buttons still look weird. I hope they get rid of those.