Filed under: Macintosh, Mozilla, Browsers
Camino 2.0 preview is out, with plenty of new features
by Jay Hathaway Oct 22nd 2008 at 5:00PM
Camino is the dark horse in the Mac browser competition. It's the faster, lighter little brother to Firefox, and there's a solid base of users who prefer it over Firefox and Safari. Camino uses the same Gecko rendering engine that Firefox is built on, but its focus is on a speedy user experience instead of maximum extensibility. With the preview of version 2.0, just released, Camino has added and tweaked some things to make the browsing experience even better.Despite some rumors that Camino would be switching to Webkit, the rendering engine shared by Safari and Google Chrome, the browser is stick with Gecko. Version 2 updates Camino to the latest version of Gecko, which should improve its ability to handle flash. It also improves support for web standards, scoring a 71 on the Acid3 test (that's the same as Firefox 3.)
In terms of new features, there's a "tab overview" mode that shows thumbnails of all your tabs. This is a big plus if you're someone who keeps a huge number of sites open at once. There's also a new menu within the browser history that shows your recently-closed pages, so you can get back if you closed something by accident. What's more, full content zoom allows you to shrink or magnify an entire page, not just the text size. All in all, a solid improvement for Camino.
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Kenya said 8:25PM on 10-22-2008
I switch back and forth between Safari and Camino as my primary browser. Camino is a bit zippier, has scrollable tags and will auto-alphabetize my links unlike Safari. My latest move back to Safari was due to a lot of small Camino errors in my logfiles and DeliciousSafari. If I could find a Camino counterpart for DeliciousSafari besides Pukka, I would probably switch again.
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Quikboy said 10:24PM on 10-22-2008
Isn't that a copy of Quick Tabs in IE7?
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