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Camino open source OS X web browser reaches 2.1 Alpha 1
The new autocomplete behavior in Camino's address bar very sensibly checks against your bookmarks and location history, and has the ability to match both page titles and URLs. That's a combination that should help autocomplete work the way you expect it to. Effective autocomplete sounds like a small thing, but some other browsers have had problems with it. On the plug-in front, Java has been disabled by default. That sounds a bit strange, but it's actually good security, as Java has been identified as a serious attack vector for Mac-targeting malware.
Camino still doesn't have add-ons, and it probably never will. It's meant to be the fastest, least system-intensive browser on your Mac, and it looks like version 2.1 is keeping that focus.
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Subscribe to comments5hRreDDyJan 20th 2011 6:33PM
I want to like Camino, but every time I use it it just feels like there is something missing. It seems like a bit of side-project to be honest as well, what with older versions of Gecko in use.
JeffreyJan 20th 2011 8:45PM
@5hRreDDy
Yeah, that's probably because Gecko based browser typically have to wrestle with Mozilla's bad support for their embedding API's. This is probably why most browsers either moved to Webkit or Chromium as their code base.
Camino was also going to move to Webkit but they figured they'd be too much like Safari and OmiWeb to justify their existence. So now their sticking with Gecko.
ChrisJan 20th 2011 11:40PM
@5hRreDDy
Camino 2.1a1 is based on Gecko 1.9.2, the same layout engine in Firefox 3.6.13.
Camino 2.0 was based on Gecko 1.9.0, the layout engine in Firefox 3.0.
F-ZeroJan 20th 2011 7:56PM
Good thing it's (finally) being updated.
A friend had an old PowerPC Macbook. Couldn't use Hotmail because they couldn't update Safari to the latest version (because they couldn't update the OS). I installed Camino on it, and lo-and-behold, Hotmail worked, they were grateful, and I had saved an ageing laptop from its scrapheap death
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