As noted on Macworld (and about a million other pages, I’m sure), the Camino browser recently went to version 1.0. This is great to see, especially given the long gestation period for the product. I’ve used Camino off and on over the years, and it’s always had a spot on my hard drive. But now, with the 1.0 release, it’s giving my usual browsing pair (Firefox and Safari) a run for the top spot on my machine.
If you’ve never tried Camino, now’s a great time to give it a look-see. It uses the Firefox rendering engine, but then wraps it all in a very nice Cocoa-based interface. The Camino FAQ explains all of this in much more detail. What this means, though, is that Camino really looks and acts like a standard OS X Macintosh application, which Firefox (despite very good efforts on their part) still does not. For many users, Safari is their preferred browser because it looks “more Mac like” than Firefox. Well, Camino tries to give the best of both worlds—the goodness of the Gecko rendering engine coupled with a native Cocoa front-end. The end results are impressive.
For more details, go to
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2006/02/camino10/index.php/?lsrc=mcweek-0217
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