Camino 1.6: Automatic updates, keychain integration, and more

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Camino 1.6: Automatic updates, keychain integration, and more

by Simon Kerbel Apr 18th 2008

Camino 1.6 is now out in the wild, and it looks to be the release a lot of people were waiting for. With many new features as well as many updated features, Camino 1.6 is an excellent and compelling alternative to Safari and Firefox on the Mac.

New to Camino 1.6:

Toolbar Search Improvements: The toolbar search in Camino can now be edited and customized, with the ability to delete, rename, and reorder search engines. Camino also supports OpenSearch plug-ins.
Streamlined Find Interface: No more Find panel in Camino 1.6. Instead, a simple Find toolbar will appear when you need it at the bottom of the browser window (this feature is very similar to Safari's inline search, though Safari's find toolbar appears on the top).
Tabbed Browsing Improvements: Camino 1.6 now includes a scrolling tab bar. If more tabs are open than can be displayed in the tab bar, you'll see arrows on the right and left edge that will allow you to scroll through the tabs.
Integrated Software Update: Using the "Sparkle" framework, Camino now has an auto-update feature.

There are also many improved features in Camino 1.6, including AppleScript support, feed detection, and spell checking.

The big improvement in Camino 1.6 for many users has to be the updated keychain support, which now stores information for multiple accounts in the Keychain. And, as always, Camino will automatically block pop-ups, ads, and animations.

You owe it to yourself to download Camino 1.6 and take it for a test run. It might just be the best browser on the Mac. Agree? Disagree? Spell it out in the comments.

[via Mozilla Links]

Tags: camino, mozilla, web browser, WebBrowser

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Aron Trimble said 2:39PM on 4-18-2008

Camino is all right for the likes of say, my mom or my wife, and even that's a stretch since Safari works with most sites... However, for me, it's kind of the lowest common denominator between Firefox and Safari. It doesn't have any plugins like Firefox and it doesn't have the integration into the OS of Safari.

Camino used to be my go-to browser for those random sites that didn't work well with Safari; but now that Firefox 3 is around the pike and fixing nearly all of my Firefox 2 gripes I've jumped ship.

Wolfman K 42 said 2:43PM on 4-18-2008

I can't agree with Aron more. If it supported ff extensions or just grease monkey I'd jump on it in a heartbeat. But as it is now I just don't see the point. I currently use the FF 3 beta and back that up with Safari 3.

tevetorbes said 2:51PM on 4-18-2008

Same here- FF 3.0b5 and Safari when that doesn't work.

I will say that I annoyed by the fact that http://espn.go.com works in Safari and Camino but not Firefox, but otherwise FF is my main browser and Safari waits patiently for specialized tasks.

I dl'd it and will drive it around some this afternoon, but I'm currently typing this post in FF after having just DL'd Camino, so who knows how long the test drive will last :D

Josh said 2:45PM on 4-18-2008

Camino has nothing on Firefox anymore. With the release of Fx3 and GrApple being updated, you can look at Firefox and not realize that it is Firefox you are looking at. The new version of GrApple is almost a perfect clone of Safari and I love it. The only thing that would be nice is a WebClips integration with Dashboard. I rather like using that to keep track of my sport scores on ESPN and having to switch over to Safari to make a new one gets rather troublesome.

toxic boy said 2:55PM on 4-18-2008

huh. unlike the comments above, i still really like to have Camino on hand to fire up quickly when something doesn't work in Safari. i rarely use those Firefox extensions. i think Camino's slick and fast.

paul said 3:02PM on 4-18-2008

I still think Camino is the best for Macs. It just looks right, unlike FF2 and Safari. This new version is also much snappier. All they need to do is let me reorder (drag and drop) my tabs and include Growl for downloads, and I'll be happy.

brian said 3:45PM on 4-18-2008

I use the nightly builds of Webkit (Safari) as my default, and Firefox 3.0b if something doesn't work right. The Webkit guys have been doing some amazing work on the renderer, and I think the speed of Webkit blows away Firefox. I also can't live without the Inquisitor plugin. I'd love to find something similar for Firefox, but I have yet to.

Ben said 9:58PM on 4-19-2008

Still can't move tabs :(

It is still my favorite browser because it works with more sites than Safari and integrates with keychain. Firefox's password manager is useless and I'm not willing to pay for a 3rd party solution (1password)

ogman said 9:16AM on 5-13-2008

Excellent browser. I've replaced the bloated Firefox with Camino.

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