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Camino is a Mac OS X web browser and Internet Gopher client based on the Mozilla Application Suite . It replaces Mozilla's XUL -based user interface with a native Cocoa implementation. Camino does not 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. Camino has been lauded by many critics as the fastest internet browser ever. Mike Pinkerton has been the technical lead of the Camino project since Dave Hyatt moved to the Safari team at Apple Computer in mid-2002. The latest stable release is 1.0, released on February 14 , 2006 . HISTORY In late 2001 Mike Pinkerton and Vidur Apparao started a project within Netscape to prove that the Gecko Layout Engine could be embedded in a Mac OS X Cocoa application. In early 2002 Dave Hyatt , one of the co-creators of Firefox (then called Phoenix), joined the team and built Chimera, a small, lightweight browser Wrapper , around their work. The first downloadable build of Chimera 0.1 was released on February 13 , 2002 . The early releases became popular due to their fast page-loading speeds (as compared with then-dominant Mac browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer Version 5.2 ). Many claimed it was the fastest web browser on the Mac, although it was not as feature-complete as its competitors. Hyatt was hired by Apple Computer in mid- 2002 to start work on what would become Safari . Meanwhile, the Chimera developers got a small team together within Netscape, with dedicated development and QA , to put together a Netscape-branded technology preview for the January 2003 Macworld Conference . However, two days before the show, AOL management decided to abandon the entire project. Despite this setback, a skeleton crew of QA and developers released Camino 0.7 on March 3 , 2003 . The name was changed from Chimera to Camino for legal reasons. Because of its roots in Greek Mythology , ''Chimera'' has been a popular choice of name for Hypermedia systems. One of the first graphical web browsers was called Chimera, and researchers at the University Of California, Irvine have also developed a complete hypermedia system of the same name. While version 0.7 was primarily a Netscape-driven release kept afloat at the end by Open Source , version 0.8 was, according to lead developer Pinkerton, "a triumph of open source and open process. People from all around the world helped with patches, QA, bug triage, localization, artwork, and Evangelism ." In February 2005 , Josh Aas , one of the lead developers of Camino, was employed by the Mozilla Foundation to improve support for Mac OS X in projects such as Firefox, Thunderbird and The Mozilla Toolkit . He began working full-time for Mozilla in May 2005 . In September 2005 , Pinkerton accepted a position at Google where he will work closely with Google's Firefox team and continue to work on Camino during his "Twenty Percent" Time . Camino 1.0, released on February 14th of 2006, was the first browser of the Mozilla family to appear as a Universal Binary , thanks largely to the efforts of Mark Mentovai , another of the Camino developers. Version history
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