Following on what has been a release-intensive year to date, the Camino project released today Camino 1.0, a Gecko-based browser designed exclusively for the MacOS X operating system on PowerPC and Intel platforms thaks to its Universal Code.

Among other features in this final release:

• Universal Binary – Camino is now a universal binary, allowing it to run natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs.
• New Tab Bar Appearance – The new tab bar appearance allows for easier usability.
• Download Manager Pause/Resume – The download manager now supports pause and resume and has been highly optimized and revised for better performance.
• Annoyance Blocking – With built-in ad- and pop-up blocking, Camino now allows you to ignore the things you hate most.
• Certificate Support – The addition of certificate support yields better security.
• Java Embedding Plugin – JEP improves Java performance immensely.
• Form Fill from Address Book – Form fill from Address Book makes filling in those pesky web forms much easier.
• History Searching – Finding past web pages is even easier with history searching built-in to the History Manager.
• Support for More Web Standards – Thanks to the Gecko rendering engine, Camino now supports SVG, the canvas tag, and JavaScript 1.6, as well as improved CSS 2 and CSS 3 support.

Firefox users can be safely envious of its download pause/resume capabilities. Congrats to the Camino project people for this important milestone.