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Camino Extension

kberner
kberner
in Mac
Please, please, please bring back the Camino extension for Mac -- Safari under Lion no longer works with a large number of sites and Firefox is very slow. Camino is the only Mac browser that works consistently and quickly!
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  • Ben
    Ben AWS Team
    Hi kberner,



    Welcome to the forums! <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> I'm very sorry for the delay in getting a response to you.





    The latest version of 1Password does not work with Camino. 1Password 3.5 was the latest version of 1Password that worked with Camino.



    We made the difficult decision to remove the Camino extension going forward because of several reasons. First, the future of Camino is uncertain, as can be seen on the Camino blog <http://caminobrowser.org/blog/>:



    "Beyond that, the future is unclear. As a purely community-based open source project, no one is employed to work on Camino; all Camino developers are volunteers, working on Camino in their spare time, as a labor of love. While maintaining embedding in a fork of Gecko is theoretically possible, we don’t have the manpower for a sustained effort of that kind."



    In addition to this, Apple has made some changes in OS X 10.7 (Lion) that will prevent 1Password from supporting Camino. These issues combined with other technical issues caused us to make the hard decision to remove the Camino extension completely.



    Not only is Camino's future development uncertain, but the niche it once filled is getting smaller. Camino was the bee's knees when Safari was not very powerful and Firefox was not very Mac-like but the landscape has changed significantly since then. Firefox has gotten more Mac-like and Safari and Chrome have added more power, so between the two, Camino users should be able to find a comfortable home with one of those other browsers.



    If you'd still like to use Camino and 1Password together, you can downgrade to 1Password 3.5 (note: 3.5 is not compatible with OS X 10.7 Lion). Please see this help guide for more details:



    http://help.agilebits.com/1Password3/legacy_versions.html



    Thanks

    Ben
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