[Camino] CamiTools is no longer...

[Stuart Morgan]

On Jul 17, 2006, at 5:55 AM, Rob Griffiths wrote:

> My question the Camino developers is this: are there any plans to  
> roll some (or preferably nearly all) of CamiTools functionality  
> into the browser? In particular, I'm quite hooked on immediate type  
> & find, auto-completion, 'ignore autocomplete,' control over GIF  
> animation, and the nice ad- and Flash-block features.

Nearly all of the functionality you are attributing to CamiTools is  
already rolled into the browser.  The preferences in CamiTools are  
GUI for existing underlying preferences, not hacks to browser  
functionality.  What's not built in, and what CamiTools provides, is  
the friendly, exposed GUI for those preferences--preferences that for  
the most part have been omitted from Camino's GUI because they don't  
pass the 80/20 rule (making them ideal for a third-party add-on like  
CamiTools).  You'll continue to be able to use CamiTools for them as  
long as their names aren't changed in the underlying implementation,  
and afterward you'll still have the possibility of using about:config  
or text-file editing to set those prefs, if no-one else has stepped  
up to provide an updated power-user GUI pref controller like CamiTools.

-Stuart