Mac OS X Power Hound, Second Edition

Camino-Only Hints

Camino, although also based on Mozilla’s code, is somewhat different than the other three such browsers. It has a number of unique features, including the most Mac-looking interface of the bunch. Here are a few hints specific to Camino.

Copying Tabs

If you have a bunch of tabs open in Camino, you can do-si-do them around as follows:

• If you drag an existing tab to the very edge of the tab bar (the empty part), using the small icon next to its name as a handle, you create a new tab of the same site, as illustrated in Figure 12-35.

Figure 12-35. Dragging the Apple tab to an empty area of the Camino toolbar (far left) creates a new tab displaying the same site. The idea of this feature, of course, is that it’s now easy to branch off to a second page of that same site, without having to hit the Back button.

• If you drag the icon of one tab over another, you erase whatever’s in the second one and create a copy of the first.

• If you drag a link from a Web page to the empty edge of the tab bar (or onto an existing tab), you create a new tab that opens the URL you just dragged into place.

Get Quick Access to Bookmarks via the Dock

If you’re like most people, you probably have a few Web sites that you visit every day—and wouldn’t it be convenient to have them in Camino’s Dock menu for easy activation from any program? Luckily, with a few mouse clicks in Camino, you can do just that, ...