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Mozilla Camino 1.0 Released
Mini-Geek writes "MozillaZine is reporting that Mozilla Camino 1.0 has been released. The latest release includes a new tab bar appearance, pause and resume for downloads, improved advertisement and popup blocking, enhanced certificate support, bundled java embedding plugin, form fill from Address Book and inline search of history and bookmarks. See the Camino 1.0 Release Notes for more details."
The link in the story appears broken. Here's the actual ,a href="http://www.caminobrowser.org/releases/1.0.ph p">Camino 1.0 release notes
For one, it doesn't include XUL, so it doesn't support extensions. However, the Cocoa integration is much better, so it looks and feels like a real Mac application. It's gorgeous, about as pretty as Firefox for OS X with Firefoxy widgets. It's fast. And in my experience, it doesn't bleed RAM like Firefox does.
Keychain integration, a native Cocoa ui, and Address Book support all make it a more "Mac-like" application than Firefox can ever be.
there's more than one way to do me.
FYI, Camino isn't written entirely in Cocoa. The Gecko implementation, and therefore the actual webpage rendering, are in Carbon. This means that things like integrated spellchecking and anything in the Services menu don't work in webpage forms.
Not to knock it, Camino's my favorite browser. But I do consider that a minor shortcoming.
Oh, and someone mentioned the inconvenient tab-changing keyboard shortcuts. There are corresponding menu items, so you can just remap those keys using the Keyboard preference pane in System Preferences.