Camino
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Camino is a browser for Mac OS X built on the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine. It predates both of its more famous upstart counterparts, Safari and Firefox. Originally known as Chimera, it was one of the original Mac OS X browsers.
The goal of Camino is to provide a simple, light-weight browser that is a hybrid of the Cocoa and Gecko APIs.
Due to Gecko's cross platform nature, and decisions made during early versions of Camino (then Chimera) and early ports of Mozilla to Mac OS X, the rendering of web pages in any Gecko based browser, including Camino, is not fully Cocoa native, unlike WebKit based browsers. There is a considerable amount of work remedying this situation by replacing legacy Carbon code with Cocoa, though most of this won't really start in earnest until Firefox 3.0 and beyond.
Because of this, it lacks any RSS/Atom/kitchen sink functionality. It also lacks the same level of plug-in support that have made Firefox famous.
As of the 1st July 2006, the Nightly builds include spell checking. The service is a hybrid of the Firefox spellchecker and OS X's spell checking engine, using it instead of myspell, which is used on other systems.
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CamiTools
One of the most useful add-ons for Camino is CamiTools, which allows you to change many things you cannot change with Camino by default. It allows you to improve ad-blocking and flash blocking, customise the search engine list, spoof the user agent to make the browser appear as if it was another browser, and many other changes to the browser to make it more useable. However, it is no longer under active development, though is still extremely useful.
NOTE: Apparently CamiTools no longer exists, and it if does, it's makers request kindly that any remaining copies be destroyed.
Optimized Builds
There are several optimized builds available
- Jaguar (or better) Required:
- 750
- 7400
- 7450
- 970
- Panther 10.3.9 Required:
- 7450
- Tiger Required:
- 7400
- 7450
Other Browsers
Firefox is also rendered by Gecko, but is not written in Cocoa, and thus does not have native form widgets. While Safari is written in Cocoa, it is rendered by WebKit.
