Camino
Camino (Spanish camino [ kamino ] "path" ) is a Mozilla -based web browser for Mac OS X. The development was stopped in 2013.
Name
The browser was previously named Chimera known, but was renamed on March 3, 2003 as a result of litigation and is no longer developed since 31.05.2013. Because of its roots in Greek mythology, Chimera was a popular name choice for hypermedia systems. In addition to a system that the UCI had developed under this name, Chimera was also the name of one of the first graphical web browser at all. In the choice of the name Camino is oriented, as with other Mozilla project name in old American cars. Firebird (now called Firefox) and Sunbird go back to the brand's models Pontiac, Thunderbird is a model of the Ford Motor Company, which was reissued in 2004. Camino is, therefore, have been adapted from the El Camino by Chevrolet.
Features
The otherwise common XUL interface, which is used both in Firefox and in the Mozilla Application Suite and SeaMonkey in their successors, was at Camino replaced by a native Cocoa interface. This allows, among other things, that a click on the green " " switch of the document window, the document window is not " maximized ", not stretched out over the entire screen, but adjusts to the optimal size for each document displayed. Camino is, like Firefox, only a browser. Components such as mail or Composer from the Application Suite are not included.
After a long development phase of Camino, the final version 1.5 was officially released on June 5, 2007. The browser was the Camino Project, a community organization that develops.
Features and options
Camino uses, as well as Firefox or Mozilla / SeaMonkey, the Gecko rendering engine, a cross-program module to display HTML pages, and XML-based description language XUL (but not the design of the graphical user interface). Camino also supports many native techniques of Mac OS X, such as the keychain, Bonjour, Spotlight or the address book as opposed to Firefox. Camino is a pure OS X Cocoa application and not like Firefox available for multiple platforms. Since version 1.0.2 Camino is available as a Universal Binary. Many features of Firefox are also be found again in Camino, about the pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, or Google search bar. Other search engines are configured using a menu command. Furthermore Camino includes a blocker for banners and a download manager. Extensions, as they are plentiful for Firefox, Camino, however, for there are few.
End of the development
Was informed in the developer blog on May 30, 2013, that further development was discontinued. The reason is indicated that the development of the velocity on the web could not keep up and therefore it was now unsafe to use the browser. The developers encourage users to newer browsers ( be called Chrome, Firefox and Safari) to transfer.