It's no secret that I'm a major booster of Camino, my pic for the best browser for Mac OS X. It has issues -- most notably a lack of native RSS support and incompatibility with some WYSIWIG blog editors, including typepad, but it's so fast and pretty that I forgive it instantly.
So I was quite delighted to learn tonight that the latest point release, 1.0.4, of the open-source program was finally available for download. I've been noticing some nasty quirks and crashes lately, so it's reassuring to see it hit the road. Get it while it's hot, folks. Click through for details.
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With its crazy speed, it's the spiritual heir of iCab, the kind of janky but super-fast alt-browser for Mac OS 9 that tided me over on my incredibly old Performa, and it's equally appropriate for my four-year-old Powerbook. Which makes it quite funny that a major feature of the upgrade is importing of iCab bookmarks. This is one program that knows its audience:
The following changes and improvements have been made since the Camino 1.0 release.
In Camino 1.0.4, we have made the following changes and improvements since version 1.0.3:
* Fixed several critical security and stability issues, including those fixed in version 1.8.0.10 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine.
* Sheets will now close as expected on Intel-based Macs.
* Upgraded the bundled Java Embedding Plugin to version 0.9.6.
* Added support for importing iCab 3 bookmarks.
* Improved the handling of Internet Explorer .url shortcut files.
* The text of certain security dialogs now contains “Camino” instead of “(null)”.
* Camino will now make a backup copy of the bookmarks file when it launches if the file is not corrupt.
* Camino will automatically restore bookmarks from a backup when it launches if they are unreadable.
* Further improved ad-blocking.
