Camino 0.8 Final is Out

and available for download. Camino is an open-sourced Cocoa-native web browser based on Mozilla for Mac OS X. According to the release notes, here are the main changes from the last version:

Highlights

• A new look and icon set (a graphite set will be made available shortly)
• Upgraded Gecko HTML rendering engine to 1.7final from 1.0, yielding performance and web page rendering enhancements, as well as a large number of bug-fixes
• A more-compact download manager UI
• Entirely rewritten bookmark system, capable of importing Safari, IE, and Mozilla bookmarks, with Rendezvous and Address Book integration and multi-level undo support
• "Top Ten" bookmark collection, based on your ten most-visited sites
• Searchable bookmarks
• Google Search field in toolbar
• Ability to manage individual cookies, sorting and editing cookie allow/deny lists
• Ability to unblock popups on a per-site basis (popup white-listing)
• User profile migrated to ~/Library/Application Support/Camino
• Incremental, type-ahead find in the content area
• Automatic size-to-fit for image images larger than the viewable content area
• Hundreds of smaller improvements and bug-fixes to the user interface

Since the 0.8beta release, we have added the following:

• Click-hold session history menus on the Back and Forward buttons
• XSLT support
• Startup speed improvements with a large bookmark set
• Security fixes for the Mac OS X protocol exploit
• Tabbing from the URL field to the Google Search field works correctly
• Improved bookmark importing
• "View Frame Source" correctly displays the frame's html instead of that of the frame set.
• New keyboard shortcuts for switching tabs that work better with non-US keyboards
• More bugfixes and general enhancements to the UI and Gecko rendering engine

Here are the detailed release notes.

We downloaded and installed Camino v0.8 with no problems. Since Camino is only a web browser, it is small. It also renders web sites quickly. We aren't particularly enamored with the theme/icon set but the header is fairly small, allowing for a large window. We get an SSL Disabled error message when we try to go to secure servers and can not find where to turn SSL on, a significant limitation. [Dana Baggett]