When it was revealed that Mike Pinkerton, the lead developer for the Mozilla’s Mac-based Camino web browser was moving over to Google to take charge of building Chrome for Mac, there was some concern that Camino would be neglected. Pinkerton assured development on Camino would continue, and sure enough it has. Today brings the first release candidate for Camino 2, the new version of the browser.
Camino, though much less prevalent than its Mozilla sibling, Firefox, has a solid following among Mac users who appreciate its speed. It has long been my browser of choice as it’s relatively lightweight and very fast compared to Firefox. And compatibility with various sites seems better than Apple’s own Safari.
We’ve been beta testing Camino 2 for several months now, and it’s solid. It offers several improvements over the first iterations of Camino, notably in speed and the way it looks. Mozilla notes that this Release Candidate 1 could become the final, first official build of Camino 2 if there are no critical issue found.
So it looks like despite Pinkerton’s Chrome time commitments, Camino 2 will beat Chrome for Mac even reaching beta status.
The anticipation for Chrome for Mac continues to build. Even Google co-founder Sergey Brin admits that he’s disappointed with how long it has taken to develop. But, as we noted the other day, Chrome for Mac — not Chromium, the open source browser on which Chrome is based — looks like it’s getting closer to a beta release.
I was using Camino for quite a while and loving it until the update today killed 1Password. Once that little hiccup gets handled I’m back on the bus. Camino has proven very fast and reliable with 15+ tabs open, uploading video, and more.
LOL. Way to twist a Camino post into yet another MG plug for Chrome. Just couldn’t help yourself, huh?
Yet another terrible Mozilla decision. Should have focused on Firefox being a lean, high performance Mac browser. Instead they’ve ceded that position to Chrome.
Firefox isn’t high performance anymore. Not on Mac, not on Linux, and definitely not on Windows. It’s a big pile of ‘ALL YOUR RAM ARE BELONG TO ME’ suckage.
Nothing about Camino is a “Mozilla decision”. Camino is developed entirely by volunteers. The Mozilla Corporation can’t force a community of volunteers who want to develop Camino to work on Firefox instead.
Link back
http://thetechn...0-rc-announced/
with a market share of 0.000000001% WOW
Giving away a browser should server another purpose such as blocking competition and reducing 3rd party downloads (Microsoft), enhancing your web apps (Google) or landing you a job at Google (Camino).
If there’s no clear alternate agenda, then it is a waste of time.
I’m always amazed at how concerned people are about how other people spend their free time as soon as open source software is involved.
If someone spends hours a day doing nothing but watching mindless TV, no big deal, but if someone spends time working on free software, suddenly lots of people on the internet suddenly feel the need to tell them what a waste it is.