Development: Camino

When Apple released the first Mac OS X based computer, they introduced the world to Cocoa, their graphical interface for their version of Unix. Of course, they also introduced the world to the slickest version of Unix yet.

But, naturally, the operating system doesn't mean much if you don't have a nice set of utilities and what could be more important these days than a fast, feature rich, robust web browser ?

Camino features all of the functionality you would expect including tabbed browsing, a clean simple interface, seamless Google search engine integration and pop-up blocking.

Based on Gecko, Camino is fast, stable, clean and, perhaps above all, secure. Compared to the constant stream of security fixes for Internet Explorer, Camino is a veritable Fort Knox.

Camino includes an address book, rendevous and integrates with Apple's Keychain password management.

Camino, like all web browsers, but particularly those based on the Mozilla open source code, undergoes constant development. New features are added regularly with some of the most recent including:

  • Google search bar (a feature also added to the more recent Firebird release by the Mozilla organization)
  • Forward and back buttons now contain session history
  • More reliable cookie management and white lists (allowed) pop-ups and enhanced pop-up blocking
  • Improved download management
  • Auomated type-ahead searching

To run the latest version of Camino you must have Mac OS X 10.1.5 and later installed and have installed the MRJ Plugin for Java to work correctly. Any G3 or G4 Mac will work so long as you have at least 64MB RAM (128 MB would be much better) and at least 30 megabytes of disk space.

Please Support Open Source Developers
The Camino programmers would really appreciate it if you would support their work and that of the Mozilla organization. You can do this by purchasing merchandise or simply by making a donation of any size at the Mozilla web site http://www.mozilla.org/.