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.