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Macworld: Review: Camino 1.0.1

Macworld has a short but very in-depth, incisive review of the latest version of the Camino web browser.

Macworld: Review: Camino 1.0.1:

Camino 1.0.1, a fleet-footed, lightweight, open source Web browser, is loaded with useful features such as built-in ad and pop-up blocking, tabs, spotlight-searchable bookmarks, and pause/resume downloading capabilities.

The first thing that struck me about Camino was the browser’s simple user interface and how easy it is to use. Mozilla (the technology foundation of both Firefox (4.5 mice; November 2005) and Camino) lets you easily import or export Safari bookmarks. And Camino’s Gecko layout engine is fast and error-free the first time it accesses graphic-intensive Web pages, as well as when reviewing pages through cached history.

The author of the article really dug into the program, testing it feature-by-feature. He found a handful of features I never noticed.

I really recommend reading this article to anyone who is a Mac user. Note that the article also points out you need Mac OS 10.2-10.4 in order to run Camino 1.0.1.

So there may be some Mac users, though probably darned few, who cannot run Camino. I just read a survey of Mac users tendancy to upgrade their OS. An incredibly vast majority does seem to upgrade as each new version comes out.

posted by John Collins @ 5:03 PM