Tested: Five Web browsers you've never heard of

Version tested: 1.6.8
Operating systems: Mac OS X
Javascript benchmark: 13,614ms (Poor)
Acid3 results: 53/100
Homepage: http://caminobrowser.org/

The Camino browser is a sweet and elegant open-source alternative to Safari and Firefox on the Mac. It's probably the only browser with a UI more simplistic than Google's Chrome, yet still allows juicy extensions and add-ons of its own, just like Firefox.

Functionality is similar too. You still get your Google search box, your tabbed browsing and bookmarks bar, in-line spell checking, pop-up blocking and more. Which made us wonder, what is it about this browser that makes people use it? It's slower than both Firefox and Safari, but lacks some of their advanced features.

We concluded that it's down, once again, to sheer simplicity: it works like Firefox, but with the elegance of Safari. Plus, we suppose, by using it you avoid the feeling that you're just lapping up what's being served to you by default.

It's a lovely little browser for the Mac, and one of the only times in this test we didn't think to ourselves, "Why on Earth do people force themselves to use this?" For that, it gets our recommendation to people wanting a decent alternative browser for the Mac.