On this relatively modest system, Camino took an average of 9 seconds to start up, roughly the same as Safari - but far faster than Firefox’s 23 second startup time. I tested Camino 1.0 alongside Firefox 1.5 and Apple’s Safari 1.3.2 on an 867MHz PowerBook running Mac OS X 10.3.
If you are on a Mac, it can be difficult to decide which browser is better.įirst off, let’s look at the numbers. The application today shares the Gecko rendering engine with Firefox, uses the same JavaScript and CSS code - but is decidedly non cross-platform, tied in tightly to services offered by OS X. Camino gained its first full-time developer in the spring of 2005, and progress has accelerated since. Firefox was declared 1.0 first, owing in large part to its larger developer base. The notion of abandoning the integrated suite in favor of a standalone browser, of course, was picked up in 2002 by the project now known as Firefox. As with most OS X applications, installation is a matter of dragging Camino.app from the installer image to your system’s Applications folder.Ĭamino, you may remember, began life in 2001 as Chimera, a browser-only OS X fork of the Mozilla suite’s Navigator component. It is a universal binary, so users of both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs will fetch the same file.
DMG disk image that works for OS X version 10.2 and later. I took it for a spin to see how it measures up to Firefox on OS X, and what makes it different. On February 14 - four years and a day after the first development build - the Mozilla Foundation released Camino 1.0, its Web browser designed specifically for the Mac OS X platform.
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