{"id":14743,"date":"2013-06-03T08:10:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T15:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/?p=14743"},"modified":"2013-06-03T08:16:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T15:16:41","slug":"camino-canceled-mac-browser-calls-it-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/camino-canceled-mac-browser-calls-it-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Canceled: Mac Browser Calls It Quits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CaminoLast week the maintainers of Camino<\/a>, a Mac-exclusive Web browser first released more than a decade ago in February 2002, officially announced that the browser is no longer being developed.<\/p>\n

The announcement on the Camino homepage explains that security is one of the major factors behind the discontinuation of the browser: “Camino is increasingly lagging behind the fast pace of changes on the web, and more importantly it is not receiving security updates, making it increasingly unsafe to use.”<\/p>\n

The final version of Camino was released in March 2012, just over 10 years after the browser’s initial release.<\/p>\n

In the past year there have been numerous security updates for Firefox, which is based on the same Gecko rendering engine as Camino. Thus the final version of Camino likely contains a number of unpatched vulnerabilities, a presumption which the official statement on Camino’s homepage seems to support.<\/p>\n

The statement “[encourages] all [Camino] users to upgrade to a more modern browser,” suggesting Chrome<\/a>, Firefox<\/a>, and Safari<\/a> as alternatives.<\/p>\n

One of Camino’s advantages had been that it maintained support for older versions of Mac OS X (and older Macs) than the three major Mac browsers:<\/p>\n