The Camino Project has released Camino 1.5 which is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.8.1 rendering engine and “displays more pages more accurately than any other Cocoa browser,” according to the developers.
Features include:
• Spellchecking: Camino 1.5 includes the built-in Mac OS X spell-checker on every text field. Unlike Firefox, this spell-checker is the same one used throughout Mac OS X. Now you don’t have to worry about making spelling mistakes when writing for your blog, leaving comments, or posting on your favorite forum.
• Session Saving: Camino 1.5 now includes support for “session saving”, or remembering what pages you were visiting when you quit and automatically loading them the next time you start—perfect for all those times you have to install Mac OS X updates! In addition, while crashes are not common, Camino can now load the pages you were visting when you start Camino after it unexpectedly quit.
• Annoyance Blocking: Since version 1.0, Camino has included both pop-up blocking and adblocking. But now, it’s even better. Camino 1.5 includes an improved pop-up blocker user interface making it more visible and giving you the option to show the pop-up, whitelist the site, or never get prompted again. Additionally, Camino now includes the ability to keep Flash animation from loading until you’re ready (Flashblock) as well as the ability to disable all plug-ins.
• World’s Best Rendering Engine: At its core, Camino 1.5 uses Mozilla’s Gecko 1.8.1 rendering engine, the same engine used in the popular Firefox 2 web browser. Gecko renders web pages more accurately than any other rendering engine on the planet. Not only is it incredibly fast but it also supports the latest web standards and is built on open source technologies.
• RSS Feed Detection: By popular demand, Camino 1.5 supports the detection of RSS/Atom feeds in web pages. When a feed is found, an icon appears in the location bar. Clicking that icon and selecting a feed will send the feed to your default Mac OS X feed reader.
• Improved Tabs: Camino’s tabbed browsing is even better in version 1.5. New tooltips help you keep track of all your tabs when you can’t read their titles. “Single window mode” tames sites that insist on opening new windows by forcing their new windows to open in tabs, keeping window clutter to a minimum. With “tab jumpback”, when a site opens a new tab, you can “jump back” to the page you were viewing simply by closing the new tab.
• Even More: In addition to the features listed, Camino now maintains compatibility with Safari Keychain entries, making migration simpler, as well as new options for the Downloads windows, such as the ability to send items directly to the Trash from the window. Camino 1.5 also includes the ability to save cookies for the current session only. Please see our release notes for a complete listing of new features and fixes.
Camino 1.5 requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later and is a universal binary and runs natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-powered Macs.
More info, screenshots, and download link here.
where were you MDN 3 days ago when it launched?
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Gecko renders web pages more accurately
Better than Safari? The first (only?) browser to pass ACE? Or is this possibly going for a different “standard”, the ability to properly draw pages designed for use with IE perhaps?
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As zerO said, MDN is getting sloooooooow, in both coverage and loading time
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BTW, Yahoo Mail beta doesn’t recognize Camino 1.5 so sticking with 1.0.5…
Nice, but with the iPhone launch several weeks away, the browser market has become all about Safari.. iPhone is going to bring Safari into mass adoption and force a lot of changes for Windows Explorer only designers.
Pete – dream on.
still no rss reader though? feh.
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petes right.
When the excitement of being able to touch an icon with your fingers has worn off, most users are going to look at the large battery-hungry low-capacity iPod-cum-phone with scratched screen in their pocket and wonder why they’re paying a fortune to download miniscule web pages at paltry data rates. The iPhone will no more change the browser market than the iPod changed the home theatre market.
Blazing fast, it is too, but not without eBay issues.
Reality Check,
Why would you say dream on?
As of today with analysts predicting 45 million iPhones by 2009, well, that’s alot of new Safari users, and not just Mac users.. If we really see those kind of iPhone sales, there will be a lot of Windows-centric web developers being forced into making some changes. I strongly believe that iPhone is Safari’s ticket to mass adoption.
I’m curious as to why you disagree..
Pete. Firstly, I’d suggest 45 million units is a gross over estimate. Wildly optimistic. But we’ll have to wait and see.
But even if that is true, once the novelty has worn off, web browsing will not be the dominant use of the iPhone. The screen size is too small, the GSM data rates too slooooooooow. At best, the 320×480 resolution will force web designers to create whole new content for the iPhone – but it won’t impact regular page design.
How many millions of Windows users are there? 20 million Vista sales in one month? 255 million new PC sales per year? The iPhone would have to approach those kind of figures – and dominate the browser market – for it to have any hope of changing web designer habits. Firefox has had over 200 million downloads, and I haven’t noticed any significant change. Have you?
Sorry, according to Wikipedia, it’s 300 million downloads for Firefox, not including those from 3rd party sites or automatic updates.
I agree with Reality Check.
I use a touch screen GPS and it’s a dirty, scratched, hard to read POS now. Of course it took awhile, about 1 year of daily use.
The EDGE netowrk is supposed to be bumped, but it’s still going to be slower than 3G. No word yet if present iPhones can be upgraded to 3G or even if we can get at the SIM card so the iPhone can be used with other networks.
If the video iPod is any indicater of battery life, the iPhone isn’t going to last too long.
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@Joshua…
Not sure what brand GPS you have, but I’ve had a Garmin 2620 in use every day for the past 3 years. Screen is fine.
Well, I disagree that the iPhone is going to be a novelty.. I see it as an entirely new platform that will continue to get better, data speeds included. And as we’ve seen so far, web designers will not be forced to create entirely new content as the GUI enable current web pages to be fully functional. Something we’ve never seen on a mobile device.. Furthermore, why do you consider using your finger to navigate a “novelty” and using a stylus isn’t? And when I say “bring Safari into mass adoption,” I don’t mean that I think it will be the leader and take over IE, I just mean that it will become a major player..
Lastly, regarding Firefox, there haven’t been many changes because there are alternative browsers available for Macs and PC’s. Web designers know if that their site doesn’t render on one browser the user can use a different one.. On the iPhone, Safari is it. So if web developers want the traffic from what will become the largest smartphone on the market, they will have to make some changes.
My 2 cents.
You guys seem to be forgetting the iPhone will also connect through WiFi at a hotspot. That connection would be anything but slow. If you are out in the sticks, then I would tend to agree with you.
If the video iPod is any indicater of battery life, the iPhone isn’t going to last too long.
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It’s not. The iPod Video uses a hard drive, the iPhone uses flash memory which makes a HUGE impact on battery life.
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HUGE impact for the better.
Why complain about scratched screen? Put a damn screen protector film on the thing.
I used them on my Palms for years… Hardy Har Har … no, the PDAs, you fools! They work great…
A pack of 10 is about $12. Sheesh
GET IN THE HABIT OF USING RSS ON THE iPHONE.
Will=fast load times for browing most sights. Basically text only.
@freeman…that is just a damn trial software…it is not really ‘free’. Stop wasting people’s time
Work, home, airports, hotels, coffee shops, campuses all have wi-fi access.
The only main place wi-fi won’t be available is on the freeways, and I suspect most people won’t be doing any major web surfing while driving.. I really don’t think the 2.5 edge network is going to be a problem.. Wi-fi will be available at the majority of places that iPhone users will need it.
And regarding scratched screens… Do we really need to go through all this again? Just use fricking common sense and put the damn phone in a case when you’re not using it and as Mr. Reese suggested, a 2$ screen protector will prevent casual finger and nail scuff marks..
It sure is faster and I don’t miss those dame popup either…
Well worth a try…