Camino09Website:Support:FAQ
We offer a number of resources to help you solve any problems you might encounter while using Camino. It's always a good thing to read the Features, FAQ, Documentation, and Release Notes pages and be familiar with what the documentation covers before contacting either the Camino mailing list, our forum, or our feedback email address.
Since Camino has Find-As-You-Type technology you will be able to find information on any webpage without using a search field. First hit the forward slash key (/) and then start typing the word or subject you are looking for. You will find anything in the blink of an eye.
About Camino
Q. Does Camino support Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger?
A. Yes. Version 0.8.4 and above do. However, builds previous to this have an issue when creating or switching tabs while a plugin exists in them. To fix this, simply download a newer version.
Q. What is Camino?
A. Camino is a free, open-source web browser for Mac OS X and is based on the Mozilla codebase. It is small, fast, and easy-to-use, and offers many advantages over other browsers, such as the ability to block pop-up windows. Read more about the browser at the Features page or on our main Project page.
Q. What is Mozilla?
A. Mozilla is an open-source web browser and toolkit, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. The Mozilla Foundation coordinates the development and testing of the Firefox browser by providing discussion forums, software engineering tools, releases, and bug-tracking tools. For more about mozilla.org, read Mozilla at a Glance.
Q. What's the difference between Camino and Firefox?
A. Camino is a native Mac OS X application, this means it will only work on the Mac platform. Firefox, however, comes in all kinds and flavors and works on several operating systems. Camino combines the Mac user experience — famous for its consistent visual and behavioral experience across applications and the operating system — with the Gecko rendering engine — built and tested by thousands of volunteers, incorporating the absolute cutting edge in web innovations. It uses the Mac OS X native interface called Aqua and uses API's and services only available to applications native to Mac OS X. Some of these services include the Address Book, Spotlight, KeyChain, and Bonjour (Rendezvous). Though Firefox looks like it's using the same Aqua interface it actually fakes it.
Q. Is Camino free?
A. Yes! Camino is open source software, meaning that anyone has the right to download and use the browser for free, and view and modify the source code under the terms of the license.
Q. Can Camino coexist with Mozilla and/or Firefox?
A. Yes. Camino, Firefox, and the Mozilla Application Suite use different profiles that don't interfere with each other.
Q. What happened to Mozilla's Chimera project?
A. Camino is what was formerly called the Chimera project. For copyright reasons beyond our the projects control, we were forced to choose a new name for the project.
Q. What does "Camino" mean?
A. "Camino" is spanish, as in "el Camino." It means "way" or "path" and is an extension to the original idea of "Navigator" from which this project sprang.
Q. Why should I use Camino?
A. Because it's free, it's the only Mac OS X native browser using the excellent Gecko rendering engine, it's the most secure browser, and it has an incredible amount of well-done features such as nuisance blocking to get rid of those annoying ads.
