Camino 1.6

The best browser for the Mac, Camino, has gotten even better with the release of Camino 1.6. I know what some of you are thinking, 'How can you say that Camino is the best browser for the Mac? It doesn't support extensions, it isn't made by Apple, and it won't buy me a pony!'

All of those things are true (though I'm still hopeful that I'll get a Camino pony in the mail any day now), but for my money no other browser on the Mac feels more like an OS X app than Camino does (your opinion may vary, and I'm sure you'll let me know why I'm wrong in the comments). New in Camino 1.6 are a host of UI changes that make the browser much nicer to look at, as well as improvements in navigating tabs, and a search interface more like Safari's (though Safari's highlighting of search terms within webpages still bests Camino's).

Camino 1.6 is available now, and is free and open source.

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Source: http://caminobrowser.org/releases/1.6/

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Lode

My attempt at refreshing the GUI:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3115/2467602960_23c47465c7_o.png

May 05 2008 at 7:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

paul

Camino is definitely the best browser. I've tried Firefox 3 and it still doesn't look like a Mac program. Safari is in the same boat. They both feel clunky and bloated.

April 20 2008 at 11:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Andy

It'd be nice if you actually gave some reasons why you thought Camino was the best browser, aside from it's the most Mac-like (which as you stated most people would disagree with).

April 20 2008 at 9:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stuart

Camino 1.6 allows you to go "back" and "forwards" using the three finger swipe on the new MBP (and presumably MBA). This hasn't made it to Firefox yet.

April 20 2008 at 12:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Andreas

Camino seems pretty nice. And it looks very smooth.
But it seems Firefox's performance is more CPU effective. And this current 1.6 version doesn't seem suited for a PowerBook G4, all to slow.

There's only one thing i really don't like with the Gecko rendering engine, and it's the "dotted square" that surrounds and stays on all linked-images I click. I always thought it was Firefox, but since it's identical in Camino I guess it's probably a Gecko "feature".

I don't use Safari anymore. It seems to mess up some resources that never happens after my switch to Firefox.

April 20 2008 at 7:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

aeschylus44

Your overuse of parentheses is insufferable. Learn how to write, dummy.

April 20 2008 at 4:44 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Terry

Real shame that they failed to update the GUI to more current standards. To me it looks pretty dated on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Especially the Downloads window and Bookmarks manager.

April 19 2008 at 8:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dbr

The only reason I use Camino over Safari is because it works with my userContent.css files.. I couldn't find a good, simple way to use them in Safari..

And most importantly, Camino + FireTab (http://pimpmycamino.com/parts/firetabs) allows me to use Cmd+1 to Cmd+9 to switch tabs (Like Firefox), which I find so much more useful than opening bookmarks..

I'm almost tempted to use Safari only because of the highlight-search, but the lack of cmd+1-9 tab-switching and built-in usercontent.css support is very annoying..

April 19 2008 at 5:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dway

"The best browser for the Mac..."

Yeah, right.

April 19 2008 at 2:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

divid

I'm using Camino exclusively for webbrowsing. Never lets me down on any website. Sometimes I use Safari or FF to see if they're really better but I always go back to Camino. It just feels right somehow.

April 18 2008 at 11:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply