Brief Hands-On Report--Mozilla's Camino Browser goes Beta with v1.1b
There are lots of updates in v1.1b including enhanced tabbed browsing ("single window mode"), integration with the Mac OS X spell-checking system, detection of RSS/Atom feeds, an improved design for the "blocked pop-up" notification, enhanced options for cookies and downloads, and a resizable search field in the toolbar. This release also includes enhancements in speed, security, and rendering accuracy brought by version 1.8.1 of the Gecko rendering engine.
Camino 1.1b now shares the same code base as Firefox 2.0.x, i.e. the Gecko v1.8.1 rendering engine, so also shares many of the security fixes that are in that version of Firefox.
We downloaded and installed v1.1b over v1.0.3 with no problems. We also used v1.1b for several hours of Web browsing and encountered no issues. This beta version appears to be very stable but remember, if you decide to use it, that it is a beta and subject to issues. [Bill Fox]
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