Download Camino 2.0 Beta 1 - Mac Browser

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The first beta version of Camino web browser 2 was published today. Camino is a browser for free reminder supported by the Mozilla Foundation, which, unlike its cousin Firefox, is available only for Mac OS X (Tiger at least) and integrates done much better operating system. It benefits such support Address Book and can share bookmarks via Bonjour protocol.

Although it has recently been updated to version 1.6.6, Camino accused until the arrival of this preliminary draft some delay on Firefox 3. The Gecko rendering engine goes to the 1.9 branch that is more respectful of standards and improves performance here with Flash. The zoom feature enlarged or reduced now the entire page and is no longer just text. A feature to view the open tabs as thumbnails also appeared, while they are reorganizing drag and drop.

Remember that this is a test version that this is already certain shortcomings and limitations. The retail news, problems known as downloading can be done, however, for the most curious, from this page.


Download Camino 2.0 Beta 1 now.

Camino 2.0 Beta 1 was released on Tuesday, December 23, 2008.

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Camino 2.0 Beta 1 is a preview release of what will become Camino 2. Please do not submit this to Mac software sites like VersionTracker and MacUpdate.

Camino 2.0 Beta 1 may be unstable and may not be suitable for day-to-day use. Please download Camino 1.6.4 if you wish to use the stable version of Camino.


Major New Features

Camino 2.0 Beta 1

The following major features have been added to Camino 2.0 Beta 1 and will be in Camino 2 when it is released. The full release notes are also available.

• Tab Dragging: Tabs can be rearranged by dragging and dropping.
• Tab Overview: There is now an optional toolbar icon for opening and closing Tab Overview.
• Blocking Flash Animations: A new exceptions list allows disabling “Block Flash animations” on a per-site basis.
• Gecko 1.9: Camino 2.0 Beta 1 includes changes that improve stability on Mac OS X 10.4.
• Downloading: On Mac OS X 10.5, the downloads folder in the Dock will bounce when a download finishes.

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Known Issues

• Delete no longer functions as a keyboard shortcut for Back.
• Scroll bars will appear active at all times.
• If “Ask me before accepting each cookie” is checked, Camino will display a cookie dialog for each cookie request from a web page.
• Camino no longer supports Shockwave Player 10 and older; to display Shockwave content, install Shockwave Player 11 or newer.
• Version 2.2 of the Flip4Mac (F4M) plug-in for displaying Windows Media content causes major rendering issues in Camino. The Flip4Mac team has fixed this problem in version 2.2.1.11 of the plug-in.
• After visiting enough pages with Flash content while browsing, Camino may stop functioning correctly. Quitting and re-launching Camino will resolve the problem. This behavior is caused by a bug in the Flash plug-in and is fixed in version 10.0 of the plug-in.
• Some versions of the third-party add-on 1Password are not compatible with Camino. These versions can cause Camino to crash on launch, hang when importing bookmarks, and hang when pasting into the location bar. Make sure that you are running the latest version of 1Password, and if you continue to experience issues, disable 1Password’s integration with Camino and contact 1Password support.

Note: Before using this alpha version of Camino, create a backup copy of your profile folder (~/Library/Application Support/Camino/).