May 24, 2004

Camino

Camino logoCamino is a web browser designed and built to run exclusively on Mac OS X. It uses the gecko layout engine being developed by the open source Mozilla project that was begun by the original makers of Netscape.

I've been using Camino in all of its beta versions for the last two years and wouldn't trade it for anything. It's fast and clean, with very little system memory needs. Pages load quickly and the interface to the application is slick. Hands down the best browser I've gotten to test drive on the Mac. I still use Netscape 7.1 (also built on gecko) at work on my wintel machine - only switching over to the bloated Internet Explorer when I have to access certain web-based applications.

Today I downloaded (but haven't yet installed) Firefox from the Mozilla project. Maybe it will provide them same smooth, clean web browsing experience in Windows that Camino does on the Mac. Maybe it won't. We'll see soon enough.

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