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Camino 1.6.1 released
Just over a month after its 1.6 release, the Camino team has just released version 1.6.1. As Camino's own page states, "Camino 1.6.1 is a stability and security update . . . All users are urged to upgrade."Camino should now be less crash-friendly and nitpicky about search engine additions and compatibility with Dreamweaver and other programs using deprecated AppleEvent has been restored.
1Password caused a "possibly incompatible" message to appear, although I haven't had any password or keychain related issues since installing 1.6.1, so keep that in mind if you use both.
Camino can be downloaded here and Intel-optimized versions of 1.6.1 are available here.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Frank said 6:33PM on 5-21-2008
i got the 1Password alert too, so now 1P is not working with the new version, but i'm confident that the 1P people are going to be releasing an update any day now. they are always right on top of things that way.
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Pauldy said 6:59PM on 5-21-2008
So now it is going to be "less crash friendly and nitpicky about search engine additions", can't wait for that update. Maybe you could have made that the headline.
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Rachel said 7:20PM on 5-21-2008
camino's very nice but it lacks an optional firefox component that is, i find, utterly unlivable-without.
AdblockPlus. Seriously, the killer extension. On a fresh install of Firefox I last about an hour, maybe two, before I crack and have to reinstall that extension, and it's probably only that long because the two most-visited domains in my history are google.com and bbc.co.uk. :-)
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Adam said 7:27PM on 5-21-2008
Camino had optional ad blocking built-in (see the Annoyance Blocking section of the Web Features pane in Camino's Preferences).
You don't need to go to the trouble of installing an additional module, as you do in Firefox.
Simon Arch said 8:27PM on 5-21-2008
@Adam - It's hardly "trouble" to install a Firefox extension. Camino is a very nice browser. If it does what you want, by all means use it, but I'll stick with Firefox since thanks to extensions it can do things for me Camino can't.
paul said 12:17PM on 5-22-2008
Camino has ad blocking built-in. And I've found it works better than Adblock Plus.
Rachel said 7:59PM on 5-21-2008
@Adam
(hmm, I get a Reply link on everyone else's comment including my own, but not yours. site bug there relating to threaded comments it seems)
Anyway, hmm, that's interesting to know then. I missed it when I looked before (and I meant what i said: camino *is* nice... and before Firefox 3 it was a much better fit to OSX than firefox.
Firefox 3 is very nice though... It seems less of a step forward when used on windows or linux (more so on linux/gnome because at least the form widgets look right now), but on OSX its matching to the general desktop environment has gone through such an improvement it does seem to kinda obsolete the purpose of camino, except as a demo to Apple to say, see, you *can* make a nice light gecko-based browser. I suppose it might just be too late for me! :-)
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Rachel said 8:05PM on 5-21-2008
It (camino) is probably of most interest to people running [relatively] low-spec macs, where the fact that it's lighter and smaller can actually make a meaningful difference to user experience rather than just being a point of pride. By contrast, on a modern mac, loading a full-on firefox takes less time than it takes me to move the pointer by trackpad to the bookmarks bar by the time it appears, so it hardly seems like i need anything lighter... :-)
Christina Warren said 8:27PM on 5-21-2008
The one area that Camino still tops both Safari and FF3 for me is in memory handling. FF3 RC1 is a LOT better with memory leaks than FF2 -- but there are still memory leaks, and even on a C2D 2.16 with 2 GB of RAM, if I have too many tabs open or have it open for too long, it can start to crawl.
But yes, FF 3 being Cocoa native certainly narrows the gap and makes Camino less necessary. Camino's built-in ad-blocker, btw, is pretty top-notch. Just as good as AdBlock Plus.
David Teare said 8:34PM on 5-21-2008
Now that Firefox 3 is a lot more Cocoa friendly I wonder if its success will continue. I loved Camino specifically b/c of the Cocoa buttons. Now with Firefox 3 I'm thinking of just using Camino for testing.
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Ed said 2:36AM on 5-22-2008
Where Camino falls down for me is tab handling. Compared to the possibilities offered by Tab Mix Plus for Firefox, or even Saft + SafariStand in Safari, Camino seems hopelessly out of date.
They've been talking about beefing this area up for over a year, but this hasn't translated into any useful results for me.
Shame, because otherwise I like it.
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