Camino

: This article is about the web browser. For the fictional world in the Star Wars universe, see Kamino.

Camino is a Mac OS X web browser based on Mozilla. It replaces Mozilla s XUL-based user interface with a native Cocoa (software) implementation. Camino doesn t include Mozilla s email or composer components; it concentrates on providing just the browser by embedding Mozilla s Gecko (layout engine) in a lightweight application.

Mike Pinkerton is the lead of the Camino project.

The latest stable release is 0.8.4, released April 28, 2005. Camino 1.0a1, an alpha release, is now available. While it is still in a development state, Camino is stable and fast enough to be the default browser of choice for a growing community of users.

The browser was previously known as Chimera. Its name was changed on March 3, 2003 due to legal issues. Because of its roots in Greek mythology, Chimera (creature) has been a popular choice of name for hypermedia systems. One of the first graphical web browsers was called Chimera; researchers at the University of California, Irvine have also developed a complete hypermedia system of the same name.

=See also=

*List of web browsers *Comparison of web browsers

=External links=

*[http://www.caminobrowser.org Camino - Mozilla power, Mac style.] *[http://caminoupdate.blogspot.com Camino Update] *[http://caminol10n.mozdev.org Caminol10n project, translating Camino to other languages] *[http://arstechnica.com/columns/mac/mac-20040923.ars Interview with Camino project head Mike Pinkerton] ( Ars Technica , September 22, 2004)

==Not Camino==

*[http://www.chimera.org/ The original Chimera browser] *[http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/chimera/ UCI s Chimera system]