The macosxhints Rating:

[Score: 9 out of 10]

• Developer: nadamac/ Product page
• Price: Free

Note: This is the Pick of the Week for May 22nd.

Although I still switch between three browsers (Camino, Firefox, and Safari) with some regularity, I've found lately that Camino gets used more often than the others. Camino itself was a Pick of the Week way back when (November 2002, when it was still called Chimera), and I wrote about verion 1.0 when it was released in February. The articles detail some of the reasons I prefer Camino, one of which is the subject of this week's Pick of the Week -- CamiTools.

CamiTools extends Camino in many interesting and useful ways. After installation (there's an easy-to-use removal tool, too), CamiTools shows up as an additional Preferences tab within Camino. This new preferences tab gives you a ton of additional features; here are some of the most useful:

• Enable HTTP pipelining (for quicker page loading).
• Immediate type-and-find, ala Firefox.
• Ignore 'autocomplete=off' values, to let you save passwords that sites would prefer you don't save
• A reasonably decent ad blocker for those most-annoying pop-ups and Flash-based ads. It includes a whitelist, too, so you can allow ads from sites you wish to support.
• Customizable search engines drop-down and default search engine.
• Customized CSS on a site-by-site basis. I use this to tweak fonts and colors on some of the sites I visit.

There are other features, as well, so check it out if you're a Camino user. It's a well-integrated tool that makes my browsing time more productive.