Camino (web browser)

Camino
Developer(s)The Camino Project
Initial releaseFebruary 13, 2002; 22 years ago (2002-02-13)
Final release
2.1.2[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 14 March 2012; 12 years ago (14 March 2012)
Written inObjective-C Cocoa
Operating systemmacOS
Available inMultilingual[which?]
TypeWeb browser
Feed reader
LicenseMPL 1.1/ GPL 2.0/ LGPL 2.1 tri-license
Websitecaminobrowser.org

Camino (from the Spanish word camino meaning "path") is a discontinued free, open source, GUI-based Web browser based on Mozilla's Gecko layout engine and specifically designed for the OS X operating system. In place of an XUL-based user interface used by most Mozilla-based applications, Camino used Mac-native Cocoa APIs. On May 30, 2013, the Camino Project announced that the browser is no longer being developed.[2]

As Camino's aim was to integrate as well as possible with OS X, it used the Aqua user interface and integrated a number of OS X services and features such as the Keychain for password management and Bonjour for scanning available bookmarks across the local network. Other notable features included an integrated pop-up blocker and ad blocker, and tabbed browsing that included an overview feature allowing tabs to be viewed all at once as pages.[3][4]

The browser was developed by the Camino Project, a community organization. Mike Pinkerton had been the technical lead of the Camino project since Dave Hyatt moved to the Safari team at Apple Inc. in mid-2002.

  1. ^ "Camino 2.1.2 Release Notes".
  2. ^ Camino reaches its end. Camino reaches its end (2013-05-30). Retrieved on 2013-05-30.
  3. ^ "What makes Camino special?". Archived from the original on 2016-09-08. Retrieved 2010-07-25.
  4. ^ Camino 2.0 adds Tab Overview, improved annoyance blocking | E-Mail & Internet | MacUser. Macworld. Retrieved on 2010-11-11.