11/08/2005, 8:05pm, EST

Tuesday, November 8th

Camino 1.0b1 updates Mac OS X browser

Camino 1.0b1 is the latest release of the free web browser based on the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine. The "heavily updated version" of the native Mac OS X browser brings improvements and security fixes, adds new features, improves existing features, and fixing many bugs and addresses performance issues. Version 1.0b1 adds a new tab bar appearance, pause/resume for downloads, annoyance blocking, certificate support for improved security, a new Java Embedding Plugin to bring better Java performance, form fill from the address book (using the menu item or optional toolbar icon), history searches, and many other changes. It also offers an updated HTML rendering engine--now based on Mozilla 1.8, the same codebase as Firefox 15--resulting in performance, stability, and rendering improvements as well as Midas support.

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Titanium Man

Not bad

11/08, 9:08pm, EST

Still not good enough to make it my default browser, though. I'll stay with Safari. But it's nice to have alternatives.

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bhuot

mom likes it

11/08, 9:24pm, EST

My mom enjoys it as her main browser. The default interface is much easier to use than Firefox and Firefox had this annoying bug that if you minimize it and then maximize it, it would not allow you to type in forms or in the address bar until you opened a new window. The Firefox bug is now fixed with 1.5 though. And Camino renders web pages like Firefox, which supports many more websites than Safari does. Although I always make sure mine works in any modern browser.

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boomer0127

Camino rocks....

11/08, 9:59pm, EST

...My face. This latest beta fixes the problems I had with webCT. Now I have no need for safari (Since many of my billpay vendors don't allow safari in to their sites, but they do allow Mozilla! Brilliant! I have loved this browser since it was Chimera .4.

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OtisWild

Yay!

11/09, 2:20am, EST

Daddy like...

All my site passwds are in my camino keychain, so migrating would be a major pain in teh bvtt..

More, faster, please!

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grimblegru

Camino - thumbs up!

11/09, 10:36am, EST

The 1.0 beta builds have been really great. The rendering engine is much better than the 0.8.4 release, and being built in Cocoa means that it's much more spry.

The area where it really beats Safari, to me, is in pop-up blocking. Safari's pop-up blocker is really quite crude: it's an all-or-nothing scheme that doesn't allow for user-defined exceptions. Camino's pop-up blocker, like those in Firefox and SeaMonkey, allows for an exception list. And Camino 1.0 also has a nice banner ad blocker that's much less intrusive than Firefox with the AdBlock extension (which mistakenly tags most Flash animation - really annoying).

I also like the fact that Camino, like Firefox, recognizes the quick-edit buttons in the WordPress admin pages - anybody who runs a WordPress-powered blog will appreciate that. And the interface is very Mac-oriented. While I appreciate the commonality of the Firefox interface between platforms, Camino is a better Mac-centric experience.

Camino 1.0b1 is my default browser these days. While I still use Safari for some things, Camino is the one I trust for day-to-day browsing.

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