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.
I’ve been using Camino 1.5 for 3 days!!
MDN is getting slow. maybe we should find a faster mac news site. like DIGG
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Anyone with experience with this version of Camino? I’m really considering dumping Firefox for El Camino…..a slick machine speeding through the night!
(Yes, Ween fans, I know the real lyrics are “an Aztec machine speeding to the light”, but I’ve always liked mine better)
Reality Check
There is no “reality” there is only “perception”, and I perceive you to be a Astroturfer. Go waste space somwhere else.
Camino 1.5 is awesome. I have no complaints, only praise, for its developers.
First of all, to the folks who are concerned about battery life:
Your iPods are not giving you the expected play times because YOU HAVE DROPPED THEM and YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO USE THEM to maximize play time.
Don’t drop them, turn off backlight and shuffle and they will play the advertised time, or Apple will replace them! Jeez.
Of course dropping a flash-based iPod like Shuffle or Nano will not affect it as much due to no hard drive.
The fact is people treat their iPod like crap and then expect them to work perfectly forever.
Now, as far as iPhone and whether it will have a removeable battery or not. How many people have ever actually bought an additional battery for their cell phone? Probably less than 1% of cell phone users I would guess. I don’t know of any.
The iPhone will have to contain an energy savings feature. Hey, it is running OS X and OS X has this thing called Energy Saver!
I would love to know how many Treo and Blackberry users out there have every purchased another battery.
I think the smart thing to get for your iPhone will be SafeWare so the thing can get repaired when you drop it or go swimming with it.
>>>”still no rss reader though? feh.”
My feelings exactly. I’d switch to Camino if it had that feature. Without it: feh.
Now, as far as Camino is concerned. The new version is nice, but why not include an RSS reader into the browser like Safari?
That is currently the only reason I am staying with Safari. The RSS works so well and the presentation is slick and simple.
It is interesting to think that Apple’s strategy here is to force web developers into taking Safari into account.
I downloaded Camino 1.5 last night, used it for an hour, and then deleted it. I’ve used it before and never thought it was as good as Firefox. To make Firefox look like a “real” Mac OS application, I installed UNO and use one of the GrApple themes. But my preferred browser is still Safari.
Safari sucks.
Firefox and Camino render faster on my computer. Firefox blocks adds and popups(through free extensions).
Did I mention Safari(and Konqueror it is based on) sucks?
PS.
Running Gran Paradiso now-it is nice.
I only use Safari for a couple of sites I have to go to that don’t work right in Camino. I don’t waste my time with RSS, as I have a life. Camino with CamiTools is the best. Never could get annoying ad animations in Safari to turn off.
@neomonkey:
what’s RSS to do with having life?
so, you have a life when it comes to RSS and you don’t have a life when it comes to writing in forums, like this one?
take it easy man.
Neko,
Is Gran rendering quickly? Faster than 2.0?
duh-m, I only check sites when I have time to kill. It’s not necessary to have the latest info sent to you as soon as it’s posted, unless you’re a day trader. That’s what I call taking it easy.
^^^ What neomonkey said
@ Pete
I wouldn’t assume that Safari being built into the iPhone will remarkably change the browser demographic. Especially since I highly doubt that Safari will remain the only browser available on the iPhone, for a very simple reason – WebKit (being WebCore/JavaScriptCore). WebKit is rather obviously included on the iPhone, as well, the iPhone runs a version of OSX, and WebKit is of course OSX’s built in html/et al app framework. If Apple can port OSX to the iPhone, I doubt they’d bother rewriting it as much as possible – stripping it down, sure, but otherwise not. And since WebKit does what they need it to do, I would be incredibly surprised if it’s much changed.
What difference does this make? Well, what do Safari, OmniWeb and Shiira have in common? Yes, for the correct guesses – they’re all WebKit based browsers. Will they be ported to the iPhone… now that’s a different story. But if you think that there’ll be no third party apps on the iPhone, including no homebrew apps, I advise a reality check.
And since WebKit is already on the iPhone… hell, why not port a browser? For that matter, why not port Dashboard widgets – they’re run via WebKit. There are a few other notables that utilise WebKit, and it’s probable that apps that are already based on technology included in the iPhone are more likely to find their way across.
Either way, Safari won’t be the be all and end all. Nor is it all that likely to have any washover effect onto Safari on the desktop – for two reasons. Firstly, it’s only available on Macs. How many Windows iPhone buyers are going to think, “hey, awesome browser! I’ll buy a Mac just to use it!”. Close to zero? Exactly. Secondly, of course… who cares what app runs such and such on your phone? It’s a PHONE. You surf the ‘net on a computer using what either a) comes installed on your computer (the seething masses) or b) what various people (friends/magazines/whatever) tell you is good to use. I doubt you’d look at your phone and decide to duplicate your internet environment based on your occasional GPRS internet access. But that’s me.
Roughly on topic now… yeah, loving Camino 1.5. Been using the betas for a while, and still loving the browser. Haven’t used another one as my primary since Chimera 0.6, and have no plans to. It’s almost perfect now, and it can only get better
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