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Camino 1.0 beta 2 browser for Mac OS X now available

Friday, December 30, 2005 · 12:33 pm · 19 Comments

The Camino Project has released Camino 1.0 beta 2 which delivers a heavily-updated version of the only native Mac OS X browser using Mozilla.org’s Gecko HTML rendering engine. The Camino Project reports “great improvements in rendering accuracy and speed, bookmarks and history management, preferences, plugin support, and many other areas.”

Note that this version of Camino 1.0 Beta 2 is close to its final shipping state. It is usable on a day-to-day basis and a large improvement over Camino 0.8.4, but you may still experience bugs, or features that are not complete.

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19 Comments

torn80

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 1:50 pm · Reply

MW: among. I’m among those who use Camino and love it!
alan smalan

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 1:55 pm · Reply

Agreed! Camino is a wonderful browser but my heart will always be with Safari. It is very handy to use on sites (such as my online banking account) where Safari is not supported. Cheers to Mozilla!
Victor

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 2:24 pm · Reply

Is there really a big difference between Firefox and Camino? Is it mainly appearance?
R

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 2:32 pm · Reply

It’s the baddest browser and by bad I mean good!
scott

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 2:57 pm · Reply

does anybody else think safari uses WAY too much memory? it’s often over 100 MB’s on my 12″ pb, and even w/ 786 MB’s, that’s way too much. that’s why I use camino, which usually hovers around 60. much easier on my machine, and I like the interface a lot more too (brushed metal sucks).
Juz

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 3:00 pm · Reply

I also am a convert. Still play with Flock and DeerPark as browsers,but Camino is my workhorse primarily thanks to it’s tight integration with the Mac Keychain!

Now, does anyone know if this release will allow me to post to Blogger? (previously demanded Firefox).
Rainy Day

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 4:25 pm · Reply

I’m pleased that it now supports Midas (for WYSIWYG editing). They made some nice improvements since 0.8.4. Still use Safari as my primary browser, though. If Camino supported Dictionary Services, i’d like it better.

“Is there really a big difference between Firefox and Camino? Is it mainly appearance?”
Yes. No.
Reverse Thrust

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 4:55 pm · Reply

Since switching to Direcway sattelite internet service, all the browsers on my iMac have serious issues accessing many web sites, especially Apple’s.

Downloaded Camino this morning, so far all sites seem to work just fine in it.
qka

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 5:02 pm · Reply

<i>Is there really a big difference between Firefox and Camino?<i>

It is my understanding that Camino was developed in Cocoa, which means that it will be easily rebuilt for Intel Macs. Camino was built from day one for the Mac and only the Mac.

On the other hand, it is my understanding the Firefox is a Carbon app. To move it to Intel Macs will require major work. Firefox is a multi platform project, so it was not designed to take advantage of every Mac advantage possible.

As I said, these are my understandings from things I have read on the Web. Please correct me if I am in error
The MacDaddy-Oh!

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 5:21 pm · Reply

I use Camino and absolutely fell in love with it. I still use Safari and Firefox, but not as much as I used to. The cool thing about Firefox is the many themes they offer (I know that’s not really a neat thing, but i do like giving it more of the “Safari” look).

Camino allows me more site access.

Happy New Year to everyone!

Now, where’s the Kool-Aid?!
Mike

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 5:33 pm · Reply

Best browser on OS X, and usable by people on Jaguar and above. Very nice to see.
IRLMAC

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 5:34 pm · Reply

Camino just gets better & better. I thing every Mac user should try it at least once.

“To take a byte you need an Apple”
DBS

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 6:38 pm · Reply

Camino calls home and sends every URL you visit so if you want to have them keep a copy of your surfing habits. Surf on
twdldee

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 8:43 pm · Reply

Getting to like Shiira more and more. Happy Macintosh Developing Time!!

Shiira has the Search Bar to die for. Like a built in AcidSearch. And cool page turning effect.
humdinger61

Friday, December 30, 2005 - 9:21 pm · Reply

To DBS: If you’re going to make claims like that about Camino reporting ones web activities back to Mozilla, perhaps you can provide some evidence, like snippets of the code that accomplishes this, or some captured network packets showing it happening.
LordRobin

Saturday, December 31, 2005 - 1:18 am · Reply

scott: After I read your message, I was curious, so I fired up the Activity Monitor and took a look. Safari is only taking up about 50MB as I write this. I wonder: are you using any hacks?
Mikey

Saturday, December 31, 2005 - 8:35 am · Reply

Tried Camino 1.0b2. Much faster than Safari; about 1/2 the time to display a page. Astonishingly fast. The Google search is almost instant.

I liked the Camino preference to prevent the site from altering my window’s size and position (I HATE when a site does that)!

I do not care for the rather simple looking appearence of the tool and bookmark bars. I much prefer Safari’s more professional look, but therse are very minor issues; function is much more important to me.

The best solution is to get the Camino team on Apple’s payroll so they can make some serious money for their hard work and Apple can have a much better browser without stealing any ideas.
stormy

Saturday, December 31, 2005 - 9:01 am · Reply

scott….installed Camino and looked at memory and Camino is consistently using more.. 46mb vs Safari 32mb with only the MacDailyNews tab open! Other than memory it is a very nice browser.
UNIX

Saturday, December 31, 2005 - 10:27 am · Reply

Camino is fuekn shit safari is way betta than it all you loser need to get a real browser like safari Camino is a fuken joke when i instaled it i even regreted waisting my time downloading the pice of junk.