Chimera is now Camino?

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macasaurusmacasaurus
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/camino/"; target="_blank">http://www.mozilla.org/projects/camino/</a>;



I thought this was a little weird..

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  • Reply 1 of 16
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Yup. It's Camino now. Old news.
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  • Reply 2 of 16
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    ummmmm.... huh?
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  • Reply 3 of 16
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    Stupid name. And they can't seem to use find/replace on that site. Half the time it says Camino, the other half it says Chimera. Get it right folks... Or is it a subtle swipe at the "circumstances beyond their control?"
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  • Reply 4 of 16
    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    I kinda like Camino. It sounds kinda funny and cute, and it rolls off the tongue easier than Chimera. Which no one could agree whether to pronounce it "chai-mare-ah" or "kai-mare-ah" anyway. Or even "kai-meer-ah," I've heard that. I did notice that the page refers to it as Camino near the top, but most of the time it still calls it Chimera. And the downloaded file is still Chimera.dmg.gz.
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  • Reply 5 of 16
    bartobarto Posts: 2,246member
    Why the **** don't they just drop the crazy code name? What's wrong with Navigator???



    If confusion with Netscape is a problem, why not just "Navigator X", "Navigator Lite" or "Navigator JustBrowsing"?



    Barto
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  • Reply 6 of 16
    zozo Posts: 3,117member
    [quote]Originally posted by Luca Rescigno:

    <strong>I kinda like Camino. It sounds kinda funny and cute, and it rolls off the tongue easier than Chimera. Which no one could agree whether to pronounce it "chai-mare-ah" or "kai-mare-ah" anyway. Or even "kai-meer-ah," I've heard that. I did notice that the page refers to it as Camino near the top, but most of the time it still calls it Chimera. And the downloaded file is still Chimera.dmg.gz.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Jobs would probably pronounce it "Chimney" or something...



    I STILL dont understand how the hell he manages to pronounce it Jagwyre. It really takes talent.
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  • Reply 7 of 16
    costiquecostique Posts: 1,084member
    [quote]Originally posted by ZO:

    <strong>I STILL dont understand how the hell he manages to pronounce it Jagwyre. It really takes talent.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    A tongue-writhing one
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  • Reply 8 of 16
    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    [quote]Originally posted by Barto:

    <strong>Why the **** don't they just drop the crazy code name? What's wrong with Navigator???



    If confusion with Netscape is a problem, why not just "Navigator X", "Navigator Lite" or "Navigator JustBrowsing"?



    Barto</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Because Navigator is what Netscape used to call their browser.



    And your other suggestions are as dumb as those from the mailing list ("Ximera", "ChimeraX", ...).
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  • Reply 9 of 16
    zozo Posts: 3,117member
    fyi Camino in Italian means "fire place".



    also fyi, I just downloaded the latest "trunk" and its DAMN fast. The time it took for me to click on Google News icon/shortcut on my toolbar, in less than 2 sec the whole page loaded. Click, load, done. Under 2 sec.



    I'd say thats on par with Winblows
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  • Reply 10 of 16
    jlljll Posts: 2,713member
    [quote]Originally posted by Chucker:

    <strong>



    Because Navigator is what Netscape used to call their browser.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    But the browser's name IS Navigator - it's only the project that has been renamed.
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  • Reply 11 of 16
    stunnedstunned Posts: 1,096member
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  • Reply 12 of 16
    kennethkenneth Posts: 832member
    Does changing the project name gain popularity? The "Mac News Tab" is funny.. MacCentral, MacNN, and MacInTouch.
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  • Reply 13 of 16
    logan calelogan cale Posts: 1,281member
    If I used it, I'd still rename it to Chimera. Bestest name.



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  • Reply 14 of 16
    proud ibook owner 2k2proud ibook owner 2k2 Posts: 1,011member
    [quote]Originally posted by Logan Cale:

    <strong>If I used it, I'd still rename it to Chimera. Bestest name.



    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Im going to be getting a Wintel PC to install Red Hat Linux 8 onto... Is there a version of Chimera for Linux? or should I just use Mozilla in that case?
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  • Reply 15 of 16
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by Proud iBook Owner 2k2:

    <strong>Im going to be getting a Wintel PC to install Red Hat Linux 8 onto... Is there a version of Chimera for Linux? or should I just use Mozilla in that case?</strong><hr></blockquote>I don't think you understand what Chimera/Camino *is* if you're asking that question. It's simply Mozilla's engine (aka. Gecko or Fizilla) grafted into a native Cocoa interface. Why? Because the interface Mozilla uses is a shamble of custom classes and widgets that have bizarre and un-Mac-like behaviors.



    Asking for a port of Camino to Linux or Windows would be pointless mainly because Cocoa doesn't exist on those other platforms. The UI would have to be completely built in custom, platform-agnostic subclasses. That's what Mozilla already does and what Camino tries to get away from!



    You would want to install plain old Mozilla on your Linux box.



    [ 03-04-2003: Message edited by: Brad ]</p>
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  • Reply 16 of 16
    burningwheelburningwheel Posts: 1,827member
    they should have called iSurf or iSurfer
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