Mozilla launches a slick first beta of Camino 2.0
I’ve been using Camino, Mozilla’s open source web browser built especially for the Mac, for quite some time now. I simply love its speed, simplicity and look in a world where its sibling browser Firefox is getting overrun with bloated plug-ins. And today Camino gets even better with the first beta release of Camino 2.0.
So what’s new? Well, under the hood, Camino is now running version 1.9 of Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine. I’ve been using Camino 2 since the alpha stages, and I can definitely say that performance, which was already great, seems even better.
But many of you will care more about the more visible changes to Camino 2. While the browser doesn’t look a lot different (since it’s so bareboned to beging with), there are some notable new features. The first is that you can finally drag and reshuffle tabs. All the other major browsers have had this for a while, so it’s about time it came to Camino. Also new is the tab overview feature (see below). Users of the Opera web browser may have grown to love this feature, which gives you a thumbnail view of all your open tabs in one window, and now it’s here in Camino. It’s great for some one like me who has no less than 10 tabs open across two screens at any given time.