Camino 1.6.3 released

Camino, the best Gecko-based browser NOT named Firefox 3, has just been updated to version 1.6.3. This update, which seems to have rolled in 1.6.2 along with it (at least I never got the 1.6.2 notification, and I use Camino pretty frequently), sports the latest update to the Gecko 1.8.1 branch, including several critical stability and security fixes with better ad-blocking. Plus, it no longer crashes if a pop-up is displayed while dragging a bookmark.

Even though Firefox 3 is now a largely native Cocoa application, I still appreciate Camino's interface and speed. If nothing else, it's great to use as a Firefox 2/Gecko 1.8.1 testing agent when developing websites for compatibility.

You can download Camino here; optimized builds aren't available as of this writing, but check this site over the next few days for updates.

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Source: http://caminobrowser.org/releases/1.6.3/

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Shahryar

How's Camino's add-ons? I use Scribefire and Foxmarks and am at a point where I can't live without them. I also like my Firefox companion for ebay (using it currently to watch my Watchmen & The Killing Joke auctions

August 09 2008 at 1:57 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Justin

Camino is a great little browser that I use off and on. I love firefox and was smitten with firefox 3 until I upgraded to 3.0.1 and had so many problems from constant crashing to the point it wouldn't even run to kernel panics which is extreme to say the least. The damage was so severe in fact that only running disk warrior fixed the damage. Once I downgraded to firefox 2 I've had no issues what so ever. All these issues were on my powermac quad running the latest tiger. My macbook has been running firefox 3 with no problems at all. Anyone else having issues with FF3?

August 08 2008 at 5:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

NavStar

I think these optimized versions are a bunch of hooey.

August 08 2008 at 5:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ryan Trevisol

Camino had me until FF3RC1, the awesomebar got me.

August 08 2008 at 3:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kelmon

Pardon? Firefox is a native Cocoa application? I'm honestly not familiar enough with how Firefox is constructed but I'm almost certain that it isn't using the Cocoa frameworks. Certainly Firefox doesn't yet support things like the Services menu or System Preferences for network settings. As far as I am aware it just looks like a Cocoa application.

Someone correct me if I am wrong.

August 08 2008 at 3:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Darrell

I downloaded Camino and I like it, even more than Firefox3. Thanks for the post.
Peace

August 08 2008 at 3:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Marcel M.

Native cocoa Firefox 3? I had'nt heard that one, where can I get a copy?

August 08 2008 at 3:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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rampancy

The thing is that FF3 is NOT Cocoa-native. Here is a post explaining this from one of the Camino developers on the MozillaZine forums:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=661394

"What did *not* happen, but many people are interpreting "Cocoa Firefox" to mean, is that the browser chrome (everything that isn't the web page) is now using standard Cocoa controls. Firefox still uses XUL for all of its chrome. The toolbar isn't an NSToolbar, the URL bar isn't an NSTextField, the search bar isn't an NSSearchField, the bookmark manager isn't NSOutlineView or NSTableView based, context menus aren't NSMenus, etc. As a result, lots of things--some subtle, some less so--still do not behave the way they would be in any other OS X application, just as was the case in Firefox 2.

Beyond skinning form controls and differently, and some specific targeted fixes like emulating most of the Leopard window look, there's nothing more Mac-like about Firefox 3, which is why it still doesn't feel that way. Carbon vs. Cocoa is an implementation detail, not a look-and-feel issue, and not at all related to what people generally mean when they say "native"."

Really, while FF3 has made great strides in becoming a better Mac OS citizen, it still hasn't matched Camino in looking and acting like it actually belongs on Mac OS X.

August 11 2008 at 9:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply