Camino: The Web browser version 2.0

Supported by the Mozilla Foundation, the Camino 2.0 browser for Mac OS X users is available in final version.

Camino is an open source web browser developed by a group of volunteers from the Mozilla Foundation. Their stated goal is to combine the Mozilla technology and the operating system Mac OS X. Camino uses and the Gecko rendering engine but for better integration into the Apple OS, the browser is written in Cocoa.

Version 2.0 of Camino uses Gecko 1.9, the rendering engine used by Firefox 3.0. Since the last stable version 1.6, announced major new concern browsing via tabs that can be rearranged by drag and drop, while a view allows a glimpse of open tabs in the active window.

Camino 2.0 supports the full zoom the entire contents of a Web page. In the history menu, a sub-menu provides access to Web pages last twenty closed. Blocking Flash site has been improved.

If Growl is installed, notifications are generated when a download starts and ends. In the dock, the file downloads bounces when a download is completed. AppleScript can get the HTML code of an entire Web page or selection.

On the side of safety, Camino 2.0 supports the Google Safe Browsing which provides warnings about potentially malicious Web sites. Error pages are displayed for secure pages using invalid certificates or unsafe.

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