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Camino 1.5

by Scott McNulty Jun 5th 2007 at 11:30AM

Mac users have a dizzying array of web broswers to choose from, which makes finding a favorite a tricky thing. My browser of choice has been Camino for a long, long time. It just looks like a Mac app, and it uses the Gecko rendering engine so I get all the goodness of FireFox (sans extentions which I don't use) and none of the ugly controls.

Camino 1.5 has just been released, and it is a very nice update indeed. New in this release is:
  • Spell checking using OS X's dictionary
  • Session restore - in case the broswer crashes, it stores all your open pages in a session which it offers to restore on launch (this is very handy)
  • Keychain compatibilty - use the same Keychain entries for both Safari and Camino
  • Full screen mode - because it is the new hotness in apps
  • Gecko rendering engine 1.8.1
All of this and more, for the low, low price of free. Camino 1.5 is available now.

Thanks, jimmy.

Update: I misread the 'Window Zoom' feature. The new feature resizes the Camino window to fit the content of the page it is displaying instead of taking up the whole screen (this is when you hit the green button on the menubar). My mistake.

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josie

LOVE Camino, but I HATE the fact that I can't turn off the dang spell-check. (And it just underlined the name of the browser in the previous sentence.) How could they give us a feature and make it impossible to turn it off? That's something Microsoft would do. Maybe most people can't spell, but I can, and I resent being permanently second guessed. Furthermore, I write in several different languages, so you can imagine all the clutter from all that red underlining. What a drag.

June 12 2007 at 12:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
wicker_man

I downloaded Camino 1.5 and no pages load for me.

I'm using a G4 1.33GHz PowerBook on 10.4.9.

Luckily I was able to export my bookmarks and now using Safari ad my primary browser.

June 06 2007 at 10:11 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Yakov Chodosh

if you want full screen in almost ANY app, just get
http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html
and stop talking about it!!!

June 06 2007 at 7:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Le Citadin

Well, so far, not only does 1.5 hasn't crashed on me, but it is way faster than the previous version.

Great browser!!!

June 06 2007 at 6:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joseph

CAUTION:

Do NOT USE THIS VERSION


stupid me, i replaced the previous version 1.0 with 1.5 and now Camino is completely DEAAAD!!! It won't even luanch..Damn it. I will have to look for the previous version of Camino on my Back-Up disk.


June 06 2007 at 1:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kevin

FYI for anyone using the new Yahoo Mail; since upgrading to 1.5 I can no longer access it. Before I could tell it to access the new beta anyways, now I get no choice.

June 05 2007 at 10:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
zman

Wow... it sucks... wouldn't open mutltiple tabs... slow, slow, slow.. I actually reverted back to the previous version...

June 05 2007 at 9:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
aron t

anyone care to venture a guess why the two separate times i have tried to download this (once via safari the other via camino) that the image fails to mount?

VERY frustrating

June 05 2007 at 7:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
eblotml

Unfortunately, SVG support is still buggy (mostly text/font issues)

June 05 2007 at 7:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Biffo

OK, you beat me to it. Sorry for all the trouble, I'll go elsewhere now.

June 05 2007 at 3:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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