Camino 2.1 Released!

Posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 12:30pm PST by Samuel Sidler

After over a year of hard work, the Camino Project is proud announce Camino 2.1, a notable new update to the Camino web browser.

Camino 2.1 includes a number of new features and enhancements, including overhauled location bar autocomplete, improved control over plug-ins, and displays web content using Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 rendering engine, improving web compatibility and providing all users with an improved browsing experience. For a list of features in Camino, visit our features page. Also, see the release notes for more detailed information about changes in Camino 2.1.

Camino 2.1 is available today in 6 languages:

Dutch

English (US)

French

Italian

Japanese

Swedish

Three other languages, Chinese (Simplified), Norwegian and Spanish, are expected to be available in the near future (if you’d like to help translate Camino 2.1 into your language, visit the Camino Localization Project at http://cl10n.rwx.it/).

As always, you can download Camino 2.1 in English (or the multilingual version) from our website, and existing Camino users will receive this release via software update.

When you first launch a new version of Camino, the welcome page now checks for an outdated Flash Player plug-in to help keep you up to date. If you see an update message, please follow the link to install the latest Flash Player plug-in to get the most stable and secure browsing experience.

Camino 2.0.9 Released!

Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 12:00pm PDT by Samuel Sidler

We’ve just released Camino 2.0.9, a maintenance release which contains various security and stability updates to Camino 2.0.x. All users are urged to update.

In addition, Camino 2.0.9 is available in the following languages:

Chinese (Simplified)

Danish

Dutch

English (US)

French

German

Italian

Japanese

Norwegian (Bokmål)

Polish

Russian

Slovenian

Spanish (Castellano)

Swedish

Turkish

As always, you can download Camino 2.0.9 in English (or the multilingual version) from our website, and existing Camino users will receive this release via software update.

When you first launch a new version of Camino, the welcome page now checks for an outdated Flash Player plug-in to help keep you up to date. If you see an update message, please follow the link to install the latest Flash Player plug-in to get the most stable and secure browsing experience.

Camino 2.1 Beta 2 Released!

Posted on Friday, September 9, 2011 at 11:45am PDT by Samuel Sidler

After a month of hard work following the release of Camino 2.1 Beta 1, the Camino Project is proud to announce the third preview release of Camino 2.1.

Camino 2.1 Beta 2 is primarily a security update for users of Camino 2.1 Beta 1.

For more information and to download, please visit our preview site (users of earlier Camino 2.1 preview releases or nightly builds will be notified of the new preview release by software update and can install the new preview release by choosing Check for Updates… from the Camino menu).

Camino 2.0.8 Released!

Posted on Friday, September 9, 2011 at 11:45am PDT by Samuel Sidler

We’ve just released Camino 2.0.8, a maintenance release which contains various security and stability updates to Camino 2.0.x. All users are urged to update.

In addition, Camino 2.0.8 is available in the following languages:

Chinese (Simplified)

Danish

Dutch

English (US)

French

German

Italian

Japanese

Norwegian (Bokmål)

Polish

Russian

Slovenian

Spanish (Castellano)

Swedish

Turkish

As always, you can download Camino 2.0.8 in English (or the multilingual version) from our website, and existing Camino users will receive this release via software update.

When you first launch a new version of Camino, the welcome page now checks for an outdated Flash Player plug-in to help keep you up to date. If you see an update message, please follow the link to install the latest Flash Player plug-in to get the most stable and secure browsing experience.

Camino 2.1 Beta 1 Released!

Posted on Monday, August 1, 2011 at 12:00pm PST by Samuel Sidler

After several months of hard work following the release of Camino 2.1 Alpha 1, the Camino Project is proud to announce the second preview release of Camino 2.1.

Camino 2.1 Beta 1 contains several notable improvements, including improved control over plug-ins, overhauled location bar autocomplete, a new history backend, the ability to hide the status bar, and enhanced support for web standards provided by version 1.9.2 of the Gecko rendering engine.

For more information and to download, please visit our preview site (users of nightly builds will be notified of the new preview release by software update and can install the new preview release by choosing Check for Updates… from the Camino menu).

The Future of Camino

Posted on Monday, March 28, 2011 at 8:30pm PDT by Stuart Morgan

Mozilla today announced the end of Gecko embedding, which Camino uses to include the Gecko rendering engine inside of a native Cocoa interface.

While embedding has long been relatively low priority, being officially unsupported is a significant change. As important parts of embedding stop working, core Gecko contributors will longer be fixing them. Such breakages are unfortunately common—in fact, making sure that embedding breakages were resolved was a significant amount of the work that went into the release of Camino 2.0, as well as the upcoming Camino 2.1. Without support for embedding, releases of Camino using newer versions of Gecko—like the one used in Firefox 4—won’t be possible.

What exactly does this announcement mean for Camino and our users? In the short term, very little. The Camino Project is committed to finishing Camino 2.1, which will bring Camino users the same version of Gecko used in Firefox 3.6. The first beta version of this release will be ready soon, with the stable release following in May. We will also continue to release security and stability updates for Camino as we have always done, for as long as Gecko 1.9.2 is supported. This means that as long as web sites support Firefox 3.6, Camino will keep working, too.

Beyond that, the future is unclear. As a purely community-based open source project, no one is employed to work on Camino; all Camino developers are volunteers, working on Camino in their spare time, as a labor of love. While maintaining embedding in a fork of Gecko is theoretically possible, we don’t have the manpower for a sustained effort of that kind. A more realistic option would be to port Camino to WebKit, but while this would be much easier to maintain in the future, it would require a large amount of initial work. While we would like to take that approach, we don’t have the manpower to do it on our own—we encourage anyone who might be interested in adapting the Camino code to a new rendering engine join our development discussion list.

As always, we appreciate all of our loyal users who have encouraged and supported us over the last decade. We’ll let you know more about our long term plans once we know more, but for now we’ll get back to doing what we love: working to bring you the next great version of Camino!

Camino 2.0.7 Released!

Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 11:45am PDT by Samuel Sidler

We’ve just released Camino 2.0.7, a maintenance release which contains various security and stability updates to Camino 2.0.x. All users are urged to update.

In addition, Camino 2.0.7 is available in the following languages:

Chinese (Simplified)

Danish

Dutch

English (US)

French

German

Italian

Japanese

Norwegian (Bokmål)

Polish

Russian

Slovenian

Spanish (Castellano)

Swedish

Turkish

As always, you can download Camino 2.0.7 in English (or the multilingual version) from our website, and existing Camino users will receive this release via software update.

When you first launch a new version of Camino, the welcome page now checks for an outdated Flash Player plug-in to help keep you up to date. If you see an update message, please follow the link to install the latest Flash Player plug-in to get the most stable and secure browsing experience.

Camino is an About.com Readers’ Choice Awards Finalist!

Posted on Friday, March 4, 2010 at 11:30pm PST by Smokey Ardisson

Last month About.com released the list of finalists in the 2011 About.com Readers’ Choice Awards, though we just discovered the news today. For the second year in a row, Camino is one of the five finalists in both the “Best Small Market Desktop Browser” category and the “Best Mac Browser” category. We’re excited to be recognized again, especially as the sole Mac-only browser in the “Best Small Market Desktop Browser” category, and are facing off against worthy opponents in both categories.

Voting runs through March 8, so there are still a few days left for fans to vote for Camino in the Best Small Market Desktop Browser and the Best Mac Browser polls. (You can access all the About.com Readers’ Choice Awards categories here and vote for your favorite things in other categories.)

Camino 2.1 Alpha 1 Released!

Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 11:45am PST by Samuel Sidler

After over a year of hard work following the release of Camino 2, the Camino Project is proud to announce the first preview release of Camino 2.1.

Camino 2.1 Alpha 1 contains several notable improvements, including overhauled location bar autocomplete, a new history backend, the ability to hide the status bar, and enhanced support for web standards provided by version 1.9.2 of the Gecko rendering engine.