Brief Hands-On Report--Camino 1.0 Final Released as Universal Binary

This is the first final release of Camino since development began on the Mac OS X cocoa-native web browser with Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine, the same one used in Mozilla's Firefox and Sea Monkey. Camino 1.0 is available for download from this Mozilla Project Web page. Here are the release notes.

Here's what's new in Camino 1.0:

• Universal Binary - Camino is now a universal binary, allowing it to run natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs.
  
• New Tab Bar Appearance - The new tab bar appearance allows for easier usability.
  
• Download Manager Pause/Resume - The download manager now supports pause and resume and has been highly optimized and revised for better performance.
  
• Annoyance Blocking - With built-in ad- and pop-up blocking, Camino now allows you to ignore the things you hate most.
  
• Certificate Support - The addition of certificate support yields better security.
  
• Java Embedding Plugin - JEP improves Java performance immensely.
  
• Form Fill from Address Book - Form fill from Address Book makes filling in those pesky web forms much easier.
  
• History Searching - Finding past web pages is even easier with history searching built-in to the History Manager.
  
• Support for More Web Standards - Thanks to the Gecko rendering engine, Camino now supports SVG, the <canvas> tag, and JavaScript 1.6, as well as improved CSS 2 and CSS 3 support.

We downloaded a copy and replaced our beta version. Camino 1.0 seemed to run fine and fast. It has matured very well as a rival to Firefox and Opera as our backup web browser. [Bill Fox]