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Camino 1.1b - Now With Session Saving Built In
The hard working folks behind Camino have released Camino 1.1 beta to an eager world. The most important change since alpha 2 is an integrated restore pages feature as you see above. Although it was previously possible to get a plugin to do this called CaminoSession (as we mentioned earlier), it's nice to see it baked in. Camino 1.1b will now ask you if you want to restore pages that were open if Camino crashes (or is force quit). At this point, I simply cannot use a browser without a restore feature, so I'm quite happy to see this. Although I used it regularly back in the Chimera days, I had of late moved completely to Safari (with Saft). But I've been using Camino more and more lately since I'm now regularly having to access a website that won't render properly in Safari, and I'm continually more impressed. Maybe our fearless leader knew what he was talking about after all.
As before, Camino 1.1b is a free download from the Camino beta page.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Chris said 11:54AM on 2-26-2007
I use Camino almost exclusively and I really like it. I'll use Firefox every now and then for their web dev tools, but for all other web use, it's a great browser. I particularly like the fact that it has popup and ad blockers built right in (unlike Firefox, where you have to download plugins).
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Brad said 12:09PM on 2-26-2007
I remember the days that I used Camino primarily...
I then switched to Safari because I began using a bunch of sites that didn't render correctly in Camino.
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artifex said 12:27PM on 2-26-2007
greasemonkey keeps me tied to firefox.
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C.G. Blogs said 12:45PM on 2-26-2007
Isn't Camino based on the older Firefox 1.5 Gecko rendering engine? I mean, it looks great and I've used Camino for a while but I always find myself going back to Firefox for the extensions. I could be mistaken but I thought there was a newer Gecko engine out there that Camino (and Flock and others) don't use yet. Not that it matters, though. Gecko doesn't pass the ACID2 test, anyway.
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Andre said 1:35PM on 2-26-2007
Well that's exelent news, considering Camino crashes weekly on me. Now I won't loose as many web pages!
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M-A. said 3:26PM on 2-26-2007
Camino is my second best browser. When Safari makes me mad I take Camino. I'd take Firefox if it wasn't so ugly.
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Bungle said 3:04PM on 2-26-2007
If Camino could offer just half the tab functionality that you can get in Firefox, I'd be all over it.
Until then I'm sticking with FF, despite all the other things I dislike about it...
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Hostility said 4:14PM on 2-26-2007
I'm glad to see Camino is just getting up to speed with firefox of a year ago.
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Kevin said 5:57PM on 2-26-2007
#4, Camino 1.1 uses the same version of Gecko that Firefox 2.0 uses, version 1.8.1. Camino 1.0.x uses the same version of Gecko that Firefox 1.5 uses, version 1.8. There are alpha builds of Gecko 1.9 available. These builds pass the Acid 2 test. Camino 2.0 and Firefox 3.0 will use this version.
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JR said 12:19AM on 2-27-2007
Everytime a new version of camino is released, I try my best to use it and enjoy it, but always find myself crawling back to Firefox.
It's the little things really, like no dialog boxes for downloading files, lack of a few extensions I use in FireFox (nothing big like greasemonkey which is a niche extension anyway).
Like a few other posters have said, and I'm in the same boat, I always go back to Firefox (I'm not a big safari fan, it still has issues with some pages and let's face it, firefox is renowned and the support is there from developers).
I'll keep trying future versions until one really gets me excited, but for now, I guess I'm waiting for FF3 which will include the Mac widgets and should make the browsing experience on the mac more "mac-y" and less "windows-y"
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