A Safari contender? New Camino browser is out

Jun 05, 2007
Software

Camino. Mozilla Power, Mac style

Above is the title on the Camino’s website. It’s short, yet to the point and gets the message across.

Simply said, today’s release of Camino can really give Safari a run for its money.

And no, I’m not talking about the wonderful site designed by Jon Hicks. I’m talking about the new, long-awaited (15 months to be exact) features of the new Camino 1.5

  • Spell Checker
  • RSS Feed detection
  • Session Saver
  • Pop-up Blocker
  • Better Tabs
  • And more

Cons

What’s still lacking in both Safari and Camino for me is the lack of debugging ability for front-end code (JavaScript).

I think after having worked so close with Firefox’s Firebug, I simply can’t imagine working with any other debugger.

Rendering

Camino is a Mozilla family browser which means it’s based on the great Gecko (1.8.1) rendering engine.

Still, it may be every developer’s wet dream, but it’s slower than its competitor Webkit, a native Mac engine.

Having said all that, I’m still sticking with Firefox 2 for now.

5 Comments

Daniel Rust
over 2 years ago

Im now using the new camino for everything except for js debugging and it is so fast

its like safari++

Amit Karmakar
over 2 years ago

The one unfortunate thing with all Mozilla browsers including Camino is its lack of support for colour profiles. They don't seem too keen to to fix this issue till version 2.0 but yes it is blazing fast!

Montoya
over 2 years ago

Webkit is not a native Mac engine, it is a native Linux engine. It is only because OSX is built on top of Linux (FreeBSD, specifically) that Webkit works so well on it. This is also why Safari doesn't have a port for OS9.

Dimitry
over 2 years ago

Montoya: Thank you! That's a nice piece of information :)

Janus
over 2 years ago

More precisely: MacOSX is build upon Darwin which indeed is a close relative of FreeBSD which in turn is a UNIX-Derivative – as it is Linux. ^^

Anyway.. . Camino is a nice looking, very fast alternative to Firefox, Safari & Co. Sadly it lacks Firefox' plugininterface – what could be the cause of it's speed.

Anyway.. . Camino is a nice looking, very fast alternative to Firefox, Safari & Co. Sadly it lacks Firefox' plugininterface – what could be the cause of it's speed.

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