Camino09Website:Features

World's Best Rendering Engine

At the heart of our web browser is its rendering engine, the component responsible for laying out the content of web sites. Camino uses the Gecko rendering engine, the same engine used in the popular Firefox web browser. Gecko renders web pages faster and more accurately than any other rendering engine on the planet. Not only is it incredibly fast but it also supports the latest W3C web standards such as HTML, XML, XHTML, XSLT, DOM, CSS and JavaScript. With Camino 0.9 we made a great effort to vastly improve the plugin support for plugins such as QuickTime, Flash, Shockwave, and Java.

Mac OS X Native

Camino perfectly integrates into your Mac OS X computing environment. The native Cocoa interface and the beautifully designed icons make Camino a very usefull and elegant desktop citizen.

Camino supports the services inside the application menu to provide quick access to other tools and utilities installed on your machine. It also integrates the Address Book into its bookmark manager, so you'll never forget the URLs of your closest friends again. And now we added smart mailto: links context menu support. Allowing you to copy email asdresses, add them to Address Book if the address isn't already in Address Book and allows you to show in Address Book if the address is already in Address Book.

Bolstering a radically redesigned preference system users now get even more control over Camino aswell as allowing you to find options much faster.

Annoyance Blocking

Camino puts an end to annoying pop-up windows and advertisements with its annoyance blocking technology. These two features alone make surfing the Web a much more enjoyable experience by preventing sites from opening windows and advertisements that get in between you and the information you're looking for.

Most pop-ups are unwanted but some sites make legitimate use of them. To ensure that you can always fully access the site you're visiting, Camino will display an icon in the status bar whenever a pop-up is blocked. If you want to allow the site to use pop-ups you can unblock the site or access Camino's white-list by clicking the icon.

Tabbed browing

Tabbed browsing offers an established way to surf the Internet, allowing you to have multiple pages open while only having to manage a single window. If you like, you can still have multiple windows or even multiple windows each with multiple tabs. Tabs can be set to load the pages in the background or immediately become the front most page; the choice is yours. The advantage of tabbed browsing is that you can open linked pages into background tabs as you continue to read another page.

For example: you're reading the daily news and the article links to more data about the subject. Using a non-tabbed browser you could choose to open the link in a new window and then return to the article or wait until you finished the article and then go back and find the link. Using a tabbed browser you can send the link into a tab where it will load in the background and be ready for reading when you're finished with your article. Once you're accustomed to tabs anything else will just feel clumsy.

Camino may not be the only browser on the market with tabs, but with Camino 0.9 we have improved the use-ability and speed considerably. We redisigned the way tabbed browings looks and works making sure we retained the existing metaphor, solving previous limitations and bringing many new usefull features. All to make browsing the web even easier, faster and more fun.

Bookmark and History management

Saving, organizing, and accessing bookmarks has never been easier. With Camino 0.9 we did our very best to solve every major bug we knew to make sure that the number 2 activity for a browser is now as pleasant as can be. We worked hard to provide a true Macintosh experience; nowhere is this more evident than in Camino's bookmark manager. If you've ever used iTunes™ or Spotlight™ then you'll feel right at home with this simple, split-pane interface. Here, you can search for bookmark and history items, edit bookmark names and addresses just as though you were renaming an icon on your desktop. You can create any number of folders in your library and choose whether they appear in the bookmarks bar or menu.