Well, I'm afraid it'll have to wait. Whatever it was, I'm sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here? ...Good luck, everyone.
Groundbreaking Camino browser digs grave, jumps in
The Camino browser, first conceived around the turn of the millennium as a free, open source project designed to be a true "Mac-like" browser for the then-nascent Mac OS X, has reached the end of the line. "After a decade-long run, Camino is no longer being developed, and we encourage all users to upgrade to a more modern …
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Saturday 1st June 2013 18:11 GMT Charles 9
The problem was that the API for Gecko took some serious leaps in the interim. Look at the differences between Firefox 3 and 4, then 4 and 5, and now the modern ever-evolving browser. Camino's API hooks were rendered obsolete, and there wasn't enough desire to keep up, probably because there were more than enough alternatives on the loose, all of which were better able to keep up with the times.
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Saturday 1st June 2013 16:41 GMT chivo243
The writing was on the wall
I figured Camino would die on the vine. There have been infrequent updates, not to mention it was stuck somewhere in version 2.x while Fireferret is 10 x versions ahead...
It's been my default browser for years, guess I have to be happy with Safari as Fireferret is really crap with updates coming at all odd hours of the night.
All the devs that worked on it, have a pint for the weekend!
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Sunday 2nd June 2013 13:51 GMT Mage
many More Browsers?
If you discount Spyware with Lipstick and simple variations they now have a choice of two rather than one before Chimera. PC Users since Opera is abandoning it's own engine have a choice of three if we apply the same criteria. There appears to be a big selection on Linux, but is there really any more choice of really viable/actually different engines than on OS X?
So another choice bites the dust.
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Monday 3rd June 2013 09:41 GMT Disco Dance Donkey
Gutted
I've been with Camino since I moved to Macs, and there's still no other browser quite so well rounded. Streamlined, ad-blocked and using keychain, it was perfect for me. I'll have to admit I did miss the abilities of Firebug et al. but then the rest of my experience was the best of any browser I've used. I even migrated my wife to Camino from Netscape.
Proud to have been part of this, if only as a bug hunter.
At least Camino spawned Safari (see who Apple took from Camino to make Safari).
Fare thee well, you shall be missed.
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Monday 3rd June 2013 13:14 GMT Gritzwally Philbin
Re: Gutted
Aye, am hearing that. Alas, I too was disappointed at the final call for Camino, but it was becoming obvious that it was on it's last legs about the time youtube stopped working for me. Hated that too, as it was faster to bring up pages on the various forms I inhabit than any other browser - still is, but if I want to stick to a handful of sites it still works well on - nope - too limited.
Have found that Seamonkey works good enough, OmniWeb started getting crash-prone on the Flash-enabled portals. Just don't care for Chrome enough to keep it and of course Safari on Snow Leopard is a huge bag of 'meh!'.. Adios Camino.
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