Posted on Monday, June 22, 2009 at 2:00pm PDT by Samuel Sidler
We’ve just released Camino 1.6.8, a maintenance release which contains various security and stability updates to Camino 1.6.x. All users are urged to update.
In addition, Camino 1.6.8 is available in the following languages:
Download Camino 1.6.8 in English or its multilingual version now.
It’s that time of year again; the calendar has flipped over to June, and, here in the northern hemisphere, students are out of school for the summer. It also means it’s time for the annual Summer of Code program sponsored by Google. We are fortunate once again to have a student hacking on Camino, Dan Weber. Dan comes to us from San Francisco State University, where he’s a computer science major. A long-time Camino user, Dan will be working this summer on bringing some Camino-flavored awesomeness to our location bar and autocomplete window. You can read Dan’s project proposal on the Camino Wiki and follow his work via his blog at summerofcamino.com. Please join us in giving Dan a warm Camino welcome!
After months of hard work following the release of Camino 1.6, the Camino Project is proud to announce the fourth preview release of Camino 2.
Camino 2.0 Beta 3 contains several notable improvements, including enhanced AppleScript capabilities, a new crash reporting system that works on all Macs, Growl notifications for completed downloads, support for rearranging tabs by drag and drop, the ability to disable “Block Flash animation” on a per-site basis, tab overview, full content zoom, better support for Full Keyboard Access in the browser window, and a “Recently Closed Pages” menu. Camino 2.0 Beta 3 also has all of the improvements in version 1.9.0 of Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine, leading to better performance with popular plug-ins and enhanced support for web standards.
For more information and to download, please visit our preview site.
If you’re not a Twitter user and following Mike Pinkerton or the Camino Project, or you didn’t see this article from Mozilla Links, you may not have seen some exciting Internet news. It seems that Camino is a finalist in the Browsing category of the 2009 Cnet Webware 100 awards! While a number of other browsers also made the cut (including all the usual suspects), Camino is the only browser on the list built by volunteers, so we’re doubly honored to be included.
Voting runs through April 30, so if you’re a Camino fan, you can vote on this page. (You can access all the Webware 100 categories here and vote for your favorite sites and programs in other categories.)
In other “Camino in the news” news, Lifehacker recently interviewed Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame, and in the interview he extols the virtues of his favorite browser. (Hat tip to Jeff Dlouhy.)
Camino is popping up everywhere in 2009, and with Camino 2 coming later in the year with tab dragging, tab overview, Growl support, and more, we’re sure to see even more exposure. If you’d like to get involved with a great volunteer-made web browser, we’re always looking for help, whether your skills are as a programmer, a tester, a localizer, or something else!
We’ve just released Camino 1.6.7, a maintenance release which contains various security and stability updates to Camino 1.6.x. All users are urged to update.
In addition, Camino 1.6.7 is available in the following languages:
Download Camino 1.6.7 in English or its multilingual version now.
As Mike Pinkerton announced previously, the Camino Project is once again participating in the Google Summer of Code (we’re listed under the Mozilla Project). We’re looking for student developers interested in making a meaningful contribution to Mac software used by hundreds of thousands. Past projects, such as the scrollable tab bar in Camino 1.6 and the tab overview feature in the Camino 2 preview releases, have been great experiences for student developers, the Camino Project, and our users who ultimately benefit from the new features.
We have provided a list of project suggestions on our wiki to get you started, but if you have your own idea, we’re interested in hearing about it. Google’s deadline for student applications for this summer’s program is Friday, April 3, 2009; if you’re interested in working on a Camino project, you still have a week to develop and polish you application. See Google’s 2009 Summer of Code home page for more information on deadlines and the application process.
We look forward to receiving applications for this summer, and we wish all applicants good luck!
After months of hard work following the release of Camino 1.6, the Camino Project is proud to announce the third preview release of Camino 2.
Camino 2.0 Beta 2 contains several notable improvements, including Growl notifications for completed downloads, support for rearranging tabs by drag and drop, the ability to disable “Block Flash animation” on a per-site basis, tab overview, full content zoom, better support for Full Keyboard Access in the browser window, and a “Recently Closed Pages” menu. Camino 2.0 Beta 2 also has all of the improvements in version 1.9.0 of Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine, leading to better performance with popular plug-ins and enhanced support for web standards.
For more information and to download, please visit our preview site.
After months of hard work following the release of Camino 1.6, the Camino Project is proud to announce the second preview release of Camino 2.
Camino 2.0 Beta 1 contains several notable improvements, including support for rearranging tabs by drag and drop, the ability to disable “Block Flash animation” on a per-site basis, tab overview, full content zoom, better support for Full Keyboard Access in the browser window, and a “Recently Closed Pages” menu. Camino 2.0 Beta 1 also has all of the improvements in version 1.9.0 of Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine, leading to better performance with popular plug-ins and enhanced support for web standards.
For more information and to download, please visit our preview site.