Camino (web browser)

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Camino

Camino 2.1 under Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
Developer(s)	The Camino Project
Initial release	February 13, 2002; 22 years ago (2002-02-13)
Final release	2.1.2[1]  / 14 March 2012; 12 years ago (14 March 2012)
Written in	Objective-C Cocoa
Operating system	OS X
Available in	Multilingual[which?]
Type	Web browser Feed reader
License	MPL 1.1/ GPL 2.0/ LGPL 2.1 tri-license
Website	caminobrowser.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.