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I'm surprised there are so many Camino users. I'm glad it's out there, was once a user and used to work with its primary developer, but Safari is so fast and stable and people are actually asking if Firefox should switch to WebKit/KHTML now. Camino, which once felt like the best of both worlds, now feels like the worst of both to me. Not as fast as Safari, not supporting all OS X services like Safari and not supporting most extensions like Firefox. To each their own of course.
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Darn, I had written a long response to this, ironically inside Safari, and it got lost. That reminds me that Safari's text preservation on back button clicks is nowhere as good as Camino or Firefox. It's on par with IE's behavior, which is unfortunate.
I don't really feel like re-writing my response, but there are many, many reasons to choose Camino, from better adoption of Mac technologies (AppleScript, real toolbar customization, etc. -- and yes, services support is in Camino trunk) to a more practical approach to color management, to way better customizability, to not needing InputManager plugins to do things, to compatibility, on and on.
The only advantages I see to Safari are speed (especially over Camino trunk, it is true) and the nice search overlay. But even on that latter point, it doesn't have type-to-search, so for searching they're really just tied.
The one massive beef I have with Safari is its color management. It has the potential to be the most color-accurate browser on any platform, but due to an absolutely inappropriate choice in implementation which Dave Hyatt continues to defend for silly reasons, the majority of web graphics that don't have color profiles embedded look wrong on Safari. (Specifically, if an image doesn't have an embedded color profile, Safari uses the
monitor color profile rather than assuming sRGB, as the W3C standards dictate. I'm not joking, the monitor profile!) Leopard makes this a little better, in that if an image lacks a ColorSync profile but has sRGB EXIF information, it uses sRGB, so at least most Flickr images will look right, but I fear that this will only make it harder to get Hyatt to move from his position on the default color space. It's sad, because of course Safari could have the best color representation in the world -- and for a selection of pro photography sites where many photos have embedded profiles, it is already true -- but on the majority of sites Safari does absolutely the worst thing.