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Camino (formerly Chimera)... The Camino Project has worked to create a browser that is as functional and elegant as the computers it runs on. The Camino web browser is powerful, secure, and ready to meet the needs of all users while remaining simple and elegant in its design.

Camino combines the awesome visual and behavioral experience that has been central to the Macintosh philosophy with the powerful web-browsing capabilities of the Gecko rendering engine. Built and tested by thousands of volunteers, Mozilla's Gecko brings cutting-edge innovations and capabilities to users in a standards-friendly and socially responsible form.

Sure, you can use a typical web browser, with typical features. Or you can use a browser that 'also' supports the Mac. Or you can use a browser you have to pay for. What if there was one that offered everything, for free?

That browser is Camino. Camino makes your web experience more productive, more efficient, more secure, and more fun. It looks and feels like a Mac OS X application should, because it was designed exclusively for Mac OS X and the high standards set by Mac users. You'll see the entire internet the way it was intended. Camino is the browser that gets out of your way, and that means Camino users need not worry about things they shouldn't have to.

WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.6 release notes
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
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Developer:The Camino Project
Downloads:204,124
  - Version d/l:6,450
Internet:Browsers
License:Free
Date:17 Apr 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Camino User Reviews (681 posts)Write A Review
Apr 22 2008
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BEN77  No adblocking, no javascript or plugs on/off per site.

Would be great to have a contextual menu entry like: "Never show/load this image/element/site again". And a javascript and plugins on/off button would be a very usefull first step.

There are polite and friendly ads on websites and many offensive and primitive ads, we need a progressive browser to block the latter.

Not bad, but could and should be somewhat better than safari, otherwise what for?

Ad valorem a mediocre rating fom me  (Version 1.6)

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Apr 19 2008
*****

RAMPANCY  A great browser, made by Mac users, for Mac users. It's a proper UI citizen on the Mac OS, it's fast, and it's a pleasure to use. The developers on the MozillaZine forum for Camino are friendly, prompt and helpful when it comes to help requests, too. Bravo to the developers, for the hard work they've put into making Camino what it is now.   (Version 1.6)

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Apr 19 2008
*****

KINGADROCK  I find Camino to be the very best of the browsers currently available on the Mac for regular users. It's lean, it's clean, it's fast, and it renders nearly all web pages flawlessly.

If you're looking for add-ons and don't mind a sub-par interface go with FireFox. If you're looking for the all the bells and whistles and a Mac-centric interface go with OmniWeb (at a price.) But if you're an average user who just wants a free, very fast, Mac-friendly browser nothing beats Camino.  (Version 1.6)

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Apr 19 2008

GIMPEL  Yes, Mark Everitt, english is not my native language, I can speak and write in three languages fluently. English is only the fourth and I'm not so good at it, sorry.

My statement is:

Today a browser without integrated javascript- or adblocking or plugin-managment is an anachronism in my eyes.

It's like an texteditor without search & replace.

The most important basic features are missing. I can't give a big hurray to a browser that simply can display webpages, there must be more, something unique, real features, to applaude.

I don't write with simpletext anymore and I don't want to surf with simpleweb, I want the comfort to block unneeded content while I am surfing.

For example, If you surf a long day with safari (which is fast) you get thousands of offensive ads, I just want to filter the most. And I don't like javascripts that open 3 or 4 windows in the background when you click on just one link.

I think an alternative browser shoul'd do that better, otherwise it' not an alternative for me.

Last week I had to do some research with google, I've been looking for informations about breast cancer (my mother is very ill), I got many rersults in google, so I surfed the web the whole day, and I had to watch thousands of ads (the most were with sexual content, must have been the word "breast").

I don't like to read about penis-enlargement (I surely don't have one, so nothing can't get bigger here) when I'm looking for something importment to me. One site with online-poker foollowed me for hours, that makes me angry, - because I have no browser that protects me from such things.

Firefox crashed to often, so I tried camino. It was the same thing as with safari, only a bit slower.

In 2008 it shouldn't be needed to install extra (mostly buggy) plugins to just block aggressive ads, that should be implemented in a modern browser and it should be well done, I think.

Camino just hides ads with css, that's what I did ten years ago in netscape. (The ads are all loaded, just hidden, that costs bandwith).

So Camino in 2008 has no adblocking, just adhiding. And if you want to use javascript on one page but not on the other you have to go your long way thru the preferences everytime, the same for plugins. That's as primitive as my use of your language...

If you want to read flummeries, than read their self-praise in the camino description here on the site.  (Version 1.6)

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