“Camino – the Gecko-based browser with native Cocoa interface and more seamless Mac OS X integration – has finally landed an official 2.0 release. The browser uses a much newer version of Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine (the same one used in Firefox) along with updated tabs and improved security features. However, Camino still lags Firefox in support for Web fonts and advanced HTML5 features like the video tag and offline storage.”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this program a distant hat bastard
a chocolate willy
What does that even mean?
I think it means someone has been drinking. 😀
Camino was a good browser but it slipped and Firefox had more to offer, even though it wasn’t native enough for many.
Since it’s less behind now, I hope they’ll be able to integrate changes more quickly. It had a responsiveness that made you think “all applications should be made like this”.
Before 3.x Firefox didn’t look and act native at all, but now that’s changed. (If your not happy with the default OS X skin you can get teh GrApple skins which I think look even better than Safari.)
What does Camino have to offer today that Firefox doesn’t?
(Not that there’s anything wrong with alternatives!)
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if I remember correctly you have a better integration, for example you can open dmg on the fly, but since it doesn’t use xul you can’t use any firefox extension and this is a big disadvantage
Camino is a lot faster than Firefox. It also uses the system spellchecker, keychain (user password storage), and can interface with system services.
With built in ad and flash blocking, Camino is fairly feature complete. I can’t think of any addons I use in FF beyond that.
Pretty much, Camino is what FF should be on Mac OS X.
Let’s put it this way: Camino is a 100% Mac like application with all the Cocoa bells and whistles that has a “NSView” that is the Gecko Engine used by Firefox. For everything else, there’s Mastercard.
Everything it does, it does it in a Mac way because it’s not multi platform.
I think it’s faster and uses less resources, but having upgraded to 2.0, I don’t see much change, except you can now move tabs, yet you can’t drag them “out†of a window to create another like Safari.
Some things work better under Camino. It’s free, it’s relatively fast and it’s an alternative when Firefox crashes and there’s a problem with Safari.
🙂
There’s a Core 2 Duo specific build of Camino 2.0 out as well. Seems pretty quick and lightweight to me.
I assume you mean an Intel specific build, correct? Because Apple has used Intel Core Solo, Core Duo, Core 2 Duo, Xeon (Core-based), and Core i5, i7, and Nehelem-based Xeons.
No, I meant C2D optimized build.
I didn’t compile it nor is it my website.
I’m just passing along info that I’ve found. I’m well aware of Intel’s processor offerings.
http://pimpmycamino.com/parts/intelc2d-camino-by-krmathis
To Little to late.
It’s too little, too late, if you want to write it correctly.
If not for Chimera/Camino, there would probably be no Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox.
So, while Camino developers (2 of them?) are catching up with the Firefox developers (hundreds?), Mac OS X still has a good alternative browser, even though development has been sidetracked at time. It’s likely that the millions of dollars of funding don’t go toward Camino, so it’s more a labour of love.
…I used Camino as my primary browser. Back in the .5 days. It was great, but development did come slowly. Now I pretty much use Chrome… Firefox and IE on rare occasions (back on Windows from OS X).